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Reports from the Middle East indicate a Kenyan civilian airplane was last week forced to land at King Abdullah airport in Jizan region of Southern Saudi Arabia.
It is not clear whether the April 16 incident had any material relevance to the President’s misfortune over Yemen on Friday but the Arabic version of the April 17 edition of the Asharq al Awsat newspaper reports that combat aircraft forced a Kenyan civilian plane to land in the Jizan region.
It refers to “coalition forces†ordering the “Kenyan plane†to land in Jizan but it is not clear what violation the aircraft had committed or what it was doing in or towards Yemen airspace which is now under control of Saudi-led Middle East Sunni nations fighting Shia Houthi rebels that have overrun Yemen’s main town since January and ousted President Aboud Rabu Mansur Hadi.
Under the headline, ‘Coalition Forces order Kenyan plane to land in Jizan’, the story further quotes the coalition of the so-called Operation Decisive Storm or (Asafa al Hazima in Arabic) confirming that “combat aircraft forced a field plane to land in King Abdullah Airport in Jizan regionâ€.
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