# Vice President Inspects Ongoing Construction at Egal International Airport

> Somaliland Sun reported on 20 March 2014 that Vice President Abdirahman Abdillahi Ismail Zeilii inspected second-phase construction at Egal International…

- By: Editorial Team, Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com/about)
- Published: 1 October 2026
- Format: News story (reported from named public sources)
- Publication: Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com)
- Subject: Infrastructure and Services
- Tags: project-management, construction-safety
- Web version: https://somaliconstructionreview.com/blog/vice-president-inspects-egal-airport-construction

## Key points

- On 20 March 2014, Somaliland Sun reported that Vice President Abdirahman Abdillahi Ismail Zeilii and a delegation of House of Representatives members made an inspection tour of Egal International Airport.
- The reported construction was in its second phase, with a fencing project yet to be concluded, and engineers of China Hono Group provided technical details to the delegation.
- The report does not establish what has happened at the airport since that date, nor does it give contract values, a named funder, or a completion timeline.

On 20 March 2014, Somaliland Sun reported that Vice President Abdirahman Abdillahi Ismail Zeilii, accompanied by a delegation of members of the House of Representatives, made an inspection tour of Egal International Airport in Hargeisa. The stated purpose was to ascertain the impact of ongoing construction, which Somaliland Sun said was in its second phase, and to review a fencing project that was yet to be concluded.

The Somaliland Sun account said the vice president's delegation conducted the visit without prior consultation with the line ministry of civil aviation, and that no named source was given for this characterization. The same article reported that the civil aviation minister was embarking on a vigorous exercise of airport modernization countrywide.

At the airport, the Somaliland Sun reported, Vice President Zeilii was received and briefed by Director General Mr. Omar Abdillahi, with the head of the facility named as Mr. Mohamed Yussuf. The article attributed the airport works to engineers of China Hono Group, which it said was undertaking the construction, and described funding as coming from a Kuwait-based organization that was not named in the report.

According to the Somaliland Sun report, engineers informed the vice president that the pavement would be dug 70 CM deep and filled with hard stones, then divided into two components: a lower portion of 7 CM and an upper part of 4 CM packed with stones. The report also stated the current length of runway under construction was 1410M, bringing the total length upon completion to 3876M, and that the fence would upon completion be 12 KM squared. Somaliland Sun did not clarify whether the fence figure referred to length or area.

The 2014 Somaliland Sun article does not establish what has happened at Egal International Airport since the inspection. It provides no contract award, contract value, total project cost, or expenditure for the airport works. No completion, delivery, or handover milestone is reported. The name of the Kuwait-based funding organization and any project timeline remain unstated.