Somalilander Writes About His Experience At Mogadishu Airport!

[NidarNidar]

Hargeisa Airport

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Apparently extortion has become a common occurrence in Egal international airport in hargeisa. Khalid Ali sudi a reer hargeisa was an undergrad that wanted to seek higher education abroad. He managed to secure a scholarship in Italy along with a visa. After he booked his flight and was about to depart he was held by SL immigration and was told his visa was "fake" and they demanded he pay 500$ to go fly. How did they know his visa was fake you may ask? One of the immigration officers pulled out his phone(yes his smart phone) and "scanned" the Visa and claimed it was indeed fake and literally proceeded to ask for 500$ to be allowed to catch his flight. Khalid then requested they send an email to the italian embassy in Kenya where he got his visa but they refused and demanded he pay the 500$. While arguing with the officials he missed his scheduled flight and thus lost his 2000$ in flight tickets. They also attempted to confiscate his Somali passport saying it wasn't issued by SL authorities(You can't travel anywhere with SL passport tf). Feeling defeated he decided to go home. Many people in the comments mention experiencing similar cases of extortion in the airport.

I've never experienced this, Hargeisa airport is quite similar to Jigjiga one, not sure if it got more upgrades, the security was tight, I entered SL via Wajale and left via Hargeisa to Addis to catch my connecting flight, pleasant experience this was 5 or 6 years ago.

 

[Sup]

It's very strange to have the capital airport run by a foreign company and foreign staff.

Tell that to the Europeans, Australian, Canadians and Americans. The fact that you think you’ve won a “political point against us” is quite laughable . The fact of the matter is this is a common occurrence worldwide because A: it saves governments money and B: it brings in technicals expertise from companies that know what they’re doing. That doesn’t mean they own the airport or “control” it, but merely run the day to day operations. Government is still in charge and their laws and regulations are to be adhered to, you’d probably lose your mind when you find out that Toll roads exist .

Btw you can’t say all this whilst you have the UAE literally owning your main port, it’s a tad bit hypocritical don’t you think.

 

[Itsnotthateasy]

Tell that to the Europeans, Australian, Canadians and Americans. The fact that you think you’ve won a “political point against us” is quite laughable . The fact of the matter is this is a common occurrence worldwide because A: it saves governments money and B: it brings in technicals expertise from companies that know what they’re doing. That doesn’t mean they own the airport or “control” it, but merely run the day to day operations. Government is still in charge and their laws and regulations are to be adhered to, you’d probably lose your mind when you find out that Toll roads exist .

Btw you can’t say all this whilst you have the UAE literally owning your main port, it’s a tad bit hypocritical don’t you think.

Really? You know it's a sign of a failed state and you can't swallow your pride to admit it.

 

[Sup]

Really? You know it's a sign of a failed state and you can't swallow your pride to admit it.

Wallahi it’s like talking to a brick wall with you people . Whatever you say bro, can’t argue with stupid !