On Tuesday, May 11 the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) suspended all flights between Kenya and Somalia with immediate effect.
According to a KCAA statement, only medevac flights and United Nations flights on humanitarian missions were exempted from the order. It is yet to be known why the flights have been suspended.
The ban comes just days after Qatar brokered a deal that saw Mogadishu re-establish diplomatic ties with Nairobi.
Somalia restored diplomatic relations with Kenya after five months of mediation by Qatar, led by Emir Sheikh Tamim Al Thani.
Somalia’s Ministry of Information announced it was resuming the relations “in keeping with the interests of good neighborliness”
“The two governments agree to keep friendly relations between the two countries on the basis of principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality, mutual benefit and peaceful co-existence,” the statement read.
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