{"id":4426,"date":"2020-03-21T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2020-03-23T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T10:46:08","slug":"relief-for-stranded-somalis-as-government-suspends-flights-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/03\/21\/relief-for-stranded-somalis-as-government-suspends-flights-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief for stranded Somalis as govt suspends flights ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia\u2019s Ministry of Transport and Aviation has announced the reopening of the country\u2019s airspace to allow stranded citizens to come back home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued this morning, the ministry said a 15-day ban on all international flights will take effect after the 48 hours lapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said only cargo planes carrying food and medicines will be allowed into the country after the 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia had banned international flights this week amid fears of the spread of the Coronavirus after neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia announced cases of the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia confirmed one case of Coronavirus and quarantined several others since the outbreak reached Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, an Ethiopian Airlines plane arrived in the capital of the breakaway region of Somaliland, Hargeisa, just a day after a Fly Dubai plane was refused to land at the Egal International Airport by the Somali aviation authorities over Covid-19 fears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: SomaliAffairs\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somaliaffairs.com\/news\/somalia-reopens-airspace-for-48-hours-to-evacuate-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Somalia\u2019s Ministry of Transport and Aviation has announced the reopening of the country\u2019s airspace to allow stranded citizens to come back home. In a statement issued this morning, the ministry said a 15-day ban on all international flights will take effect after the 48 hours lapse. The statement said only cargo planes carrying &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}