Abudwaq Airport Reopens

[Jacaylbaro]

Garoonka Diyaaradaha degmada Cabuudwaaq ayaa mudo 5-sano ah kadib dib loo howlgaliyay

 

Kadib markii ay soo idlaatay xafladii xariga looga jarayay Garoonka diyaaradaha ee magaalada Cabudwaaq ee gobolka Galgaduud ayaa waxaa soo gaaray wafdi ka socda hay’adaha QM oo ay ka mid ahayeed hay’ada WFP.

 

Wafdigani ka socday hay’ada WFP ayaa waxaa ay ka koobnaayeen 9-xubnood oo cadaan ah oo 3-ka mid ah ay yihiin hablo kuwaasi oo diyaardii waday ay ka soo degtay garoonka Cabudwaaq abaaro 5:00 Pm kuwaasi oo iminka ku sugan gudaha degmada.

 

Dadweynaha kala duwan ee ku dhaqan degmada Cabudwaaq ayaa si weyn uga qeyb galay furitaanka Garoonka diyaaradaha ee degmadasi iyagoo si weyn ugu riyaaqay in garoonka uu dib u howlgalo mudo 5-sano ah kadib.

 

Maamulka degmada ayaa hay’adaha u balanqaaday in ay garoonka iticmaali karaan iyadoo aan wax qidmad ah ama sharuud lagu xirin hadii ay wax u qabanayaan dadka ku dhibaateeysan gudaha iyo hareeraha degmada Cabduwaaq ee gobolka Galgaduud.

[Jacaylbaro]

[General Duke]

About time, I am happy for the good people of AbudWaaq its time to develop the area.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

war hee dhe diyaarad beer ka soo dagaysa airport maha niyo

[Recovering-Romantics]

It is sad when we have to celebrate and congratulate one another over a charter plane landing on a dirt.

[General Duke]

^^^This not sad its progress, whats happening in Mogadishu is sad adeer..

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

This what u call an airport

 

[Jacaylbaro]

So Hargeisa and Mogadishu do not have airports ?????

[Che -Guevara]

Mogadisho is the only place in Somalia with decent airport-other places have more of airstrip than airport though Berbera is long runway.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

yeah its the best of somalia though mogadisho

 

 

nothing great but its oke

 

 

The best of somaliland

 

here

 

 

[Che -Guevara]

^That's looks like airstrip.Do you have pic of Berbera. I think Berbera is the only other place with potential. It just needs investment in both the port and airport

[Thankful]

You are writing about aiports that were built decades ago by a fully functional internationally recognized government. Hargeysa and Mogadishu was built by Siad's government and by finicial aid from numerous countries. Somalia was given like over 300 mil in military aide alone. Bosasso is trying to build it's own airport on its own, the most ambitious development project that we've probably seen since the civil war.

 

 

 

You're speaking of infrastructure that was built ages ago. Mogadishu the capital and Hargeysa the second capital got practically all the funding. Lets talk about the present. Bosasso project has hit many snags, but insha'Allah it will be completed

[Jacaylbaro]

Bosasso is trying to build it's own airport on its own

Piracy ?? ,,,

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

In 1988 the total expenditure for transportation and communications was US$57.8 million. Nearly 55 percent of this amount was for new infrastructure; 28 percent was for rehabilitation and maintenance of existing infrastructure. This activity must be understood in the context of the ongoing civil war in Somalia; much of the infrastructure particularly bridges in the north, either had deteriorated or been destroyed, as a result of the fighting. As of early 1992, no systematic study existed of the infrastructural costs of the civil war.

 

At independence, Somalia inherited a poorly developed transportation system consisting of a few paved roads in the more populated areas in the south and northwest, four undeveloped ports equipped only with lighterage facilities, and a handful of usable airstrips (see fig. 6). During the next three decades, some improvement was made with the help of substantial foreign aid. By 1990 all-weather roads connected most of the important towns and linked the northern and southern parts of the country. Three ports had been substantially improved, eight airports had paved runways, and regular domestic air service also was available. But in early 1992, the country still lacked the necessary highway infrastructure to open up undeveloped areas or to link isolated regions, and shipping had come to a virtual halt because of the security situation.

 

In 1990 Somalia had more than 21,000 kilometers of roads, of which about 2,600 kilometers were paved, 2,900 kilometers were gravel, and the remainder were improved earth. The country's principal highway was a 1,200-kilometer two-lane paved road that ran from Chisimayu in the south through Mogadishu to Hargeysa in the north. North of Mogadishu, this route ran inland, roughly paralleling the border with Ethiopia; a 100-kilometer spur ran to the Gulf of Aden at Berbera. By early 1992 much of this road, especially the northern part between Hargeysa and Berbera, was relatively unsafe because of land mines. Somalia's 1988 plan provided for another connection from this main route to Boosaaso on the Gulf of Aden. Somalia had only one paved road that extended from north of Mogadishu to Ethopia; all other links to neighboring countries were dirt trails impassable in rainy weather.

 

Four ports handled almost all of Somalia's foreign trade. Berbera, Mogadishu, and Chisimayu were deepwater ports protected by breakwaters. Merca, just south of Mogadishu, was a lighterage port that required ships to anchor offshore in open roadsteads while loading and unloading. Mogadishu was the principal port of entry for most general cargo. Berbera received general cargo for the northern part of the country and handled much of the nation's livestock exports. United States aid enabled the doubling of the berths at the port of Barkera and the deepening of the harbor, completed in 1985 at a cost of US$37.5 million. Maydh, northwest of Erigaro, was the only other and much smaller northern port. Chisimayu's main function was the export of bananas and meat; the meat was processed and packed at the port. The United States also financed the US$42 million development of Chisimayu port in the latter half of the 1980s. Merca was an export point for bananas. In 1986 the Somali Ports Authority launched a modernization project for all ports, with concentration on Mogadishu. The cost was estimated at US$24.4 million, of which the IDA provided US$22.6 million as a credit.

 

Mogadishu International Airport was the nation's principal airfield; in the 1980s, was a runway extended to 4,500 meters one of the runway was Africa's longest with United States financial aid. The airport was further expanded in 1989 by Italy's contribution from its emergency aid fund for Africa. Only Mogadishu offered international flights. Somali Airlines, the nation's flag carrier, was partially owned by Alitalia, the Italian national airline. Somali Airlines in 1989 replaced its fleet of five aging 707 airplanes with one Airbus 310, making it a one-plane international airline. In 1990 domestic service linked Mogadishu with Berbera and six other Somali cities; flights were scheduled at least once a week. As of April 1992, Somali Airlines had no scheduled flights, domestic or international, and no other regular flights existed.

One national paved road

One plane national carrier

One Civilian airport, three or four in total

three deep water ports, Berbera, kismayo and mogadishu

lastly, the only roads connecting to other countries were dirt roads that could not be used in rainy seasons.

 

Given such facts, i'd celebrate dirt airstrips in the middle of no where too.