Transportation
Somalia Threatens to Suspend Ethiopian Airlines Flights
- Carrier uses airport codes to circumvent sovereignty dispute
- Ethiopia’s port deal with Somaliland has angered Somalia
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Somalia’s civil aviation authority threatened to block Ethiopia Airlines, Africa’s biggest carrier, from flying into the country amid a dispute over the sovereignty of a breakaway region.
The two Horn of Africa nations have been at loggerheads since Somaliland agreed in January to allow landlocked Ethiopia to set up a naval base on its shores in exchange for a stake in the national carrier. The deal will also allow Ethiopia to build a port and a transport corridor in the region, which Somalia considers an integral part of its territory.