Somaliland: Residents Call for the Relocation of Factory in the airport vicinity

[Deeq A.]

HARGEISA– Mothers and children have expressed their health related concerns over factory which produces crushed stones and lime. Tawfiq, is a factory which lies just less than 1 km in the east from Hargeisa airport runway.

The small factory is owned and run by Somaliland citizen who was given the contract of renovating the airport runway. Civil Aviation Agency Manager, Hon. Abdi Mohamed Rodol has informed the owner to relocate the factory but still the order has fallen into deaf ears. Local Somaliland newspaper run an article raising the concern already expressed by the residents which pose health related problems to communities that live just nearby the area.