{"id":276340,"date":"2018-10-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMigQFodHRwczovL3d3dy56ZWl0LmRlL25ld3MvMjAxOC0xMC8xMy9lcnN0ZXItbGluaWVuZmx1Zy16d2lzY2hlbi1hZXRoaW9waWVuLXVuZC1zb21hbGlhLXNlaXQtbWVoci1hbHMtNDAtamFocmVuLTIwMTgxMDEzLWRvYy0xYTAzZmLSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:54","slug":"first-scheduled-flight-between-ethiopia-and-somalia-in-more-than-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276340","title":{"rendered":"First scheduled flight between Ethiopia and Somalia in more than 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2018, <strong>Ethiopian Airlines<\/strong> and Somali authorities marked the first scheduled commercial flight link between Ethiopia and Somalia in more than four decades\u2014an aviation and diplomacy story after years of strained or limited air connectivity.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-243767\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethiopian-Airlines-first-flight-to-Somalia-in-40-years.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"First scheduled flight between Ethiopia and Somalia in more than 40 years\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>German and international wires framed the Mogadishu\u2013Addis connection as both a business opportunity and a political signal during a period when Horn governments were renegotiating regional ties.<\/p>\n<p>For Red Sea \/ Horn readers, the flight is a compact case study in how airlines, state diplomacy, and security conditions intersect: routes open when politics allows, and they stay fragile when security or bilateral trust collapses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/news\/2018-10\/14\/somalia-erster-linienflug-zwischen-aethiopien-und-somalia-seit-mehr-als-40-jahren\">ZEIT ONLINE \/ AFP wire context<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.ethiopianairlines.com\/\">Ethiopian Airlines<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia: Erster Linienflug zwischen \u00c4thiopien und Somalia seit mehr als 40 Jahren&nbsp;&nbsp;zeit.deMogadischu (AFP) Zwischen den Nachbarl\u00e4ndern \u00c4thiopien und Somalia gibt es nach mehr als 40 Jahren wieder eine kommerzielle Flugverbindung: Eine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":243767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ethiopian-Airlines-first-flight-to-Somalia-in-40-years.jpg?fit=1018%2C680&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19T6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599920,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276340\/revisions\/599920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}