Somalia battles for an air force to fight against terror

The Somalia National Air Force was decimated by the Ogaden War with Ethiopia in the late-1970s and the civil war in the 1990s. It now has no aircraft and has been reduced to guarding the airport. However, the Somali Government has approved a plan that will reboot the service by training pilots and...

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