Two planes almost collide in the sky above the Gulf of Aden. An Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350 and a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 avoided collision on Saturday.

The incident can be interpreted as one of the consequences of poor communication between air traffic controllers in Somaliland, an independent self-proclaimed republic not recognized internationally, and Somalia. In 2019, the International Civil Aviation Organization handed control of the airspace to the Somali authorities in Mogadishu. The Somali Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) regularly accuses its namesake of having increased the risk of accidents.