Uganda’s decade and half old military intervention in Somalia could have come with several benefits for both countries but President Yower’s Museveni’s loyalty to the government in Mogadishu is now proving to be a mixed blessing for Uganda Airlines.
The airline, which already has a service to Mogadishu, has found it difficult to expand services to Hargeisa in the self-declared autonomous state of Somaliland. Hargeisa is one of the initial 16 regional destinations the revamped Ugandan carrier planned to launch in the build up of the regional network that would feed medium and long-haul flights, the first of which launches on October 4.
