Airport re-opens in Lower Shabelle

September 21, 2012

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The Number 50 airport in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region re-opened on Wednesday (September 19th) after years of use as an al-Shabaab training compound, Somalia's RBC Radio reported.

Lower Shabelle region commissioner Abdikadir Mohamed Noor confirmed the airport's re-opening. A rented plane working for the United Nations landed at Number 50 on its first day of re-opening, he said.

Noor said that progress and stability are returning to the Lower Shabelle region after al-Shabaab was pushed out of the area in recent months, including the strategic liberation of regional capital Marka in August.

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