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Kenya opens airspace for planes to Somalia weeks after shutdown NAIROBI, Kenya - After several weeks of closure, Kenya has finally opened up airspace for planes bound for Somalia, which could help cut expenses for many passengers who use the often busy route most of the time. For weeks, passengers flying from Nairobi to Mogadishu and back, used Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a connecting route,…

Kenya suspends all flights to and from Somalia NAIROBI, Kenya - Authorities in Kenya have suspended flights to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in a transfer that may increase questions on the sincerity of the current restoration of diplomatic ties between the 2 neighboring nations. In a NOTAM issued by the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority , Nairobi now says that solely UN or medivac…

Miraa ban nonetheless not lifted, Somalia says after restoring diplomatic ties with Kenya MOGADISHU, Somalia - Kenyan Khat farmers may have to attend slightly longer earlier than they begin exporting their merchandise to Somalia, the Horn of Africa has clarified, simply hours after they restored diplomatic relations with the East African nation. For months, planes carrying the…

Sarah Obama, grandmother of former US President Barack Obama, has died at the age of 99 in western Kenya, her daughter told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday. "It is true that she has gone to be with the Lord," said an emotional Marsat Onyango, her daughter, "she went on this morning." Sarah Obama, popularly known as Mama Sarah, had been admitted to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu. Once a simple country woman, Sarah Obama was for a long time best known for the hot…

EDITORIAL | Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo reached a decisive step this week in decreasing off diplomatic relations with Kenya in an last protest in the direction of alleged interference inside the nation's internal affairs.