# Airports of the Somali Region of Ethiopia > Every recorded airport and airstrip in the Somali Region of Ethiopia: Jijiga (Garad Wiil-Waal), Gode, Kebri Dahar, Warder, Shilavo, Kelafo, Geladi, Dolo and more. Source page: https://calankii.com/en/infrastructure/airports-somali-region-ethiopia/ Last checked: 2026-11-13 Publisher: Calankii (https://calankii.com) ## About this list The rows join **OurAirports** ([Ethiopia list](https://ourairports.com/countries/ET/airports.html)) and the **GeoNames** gazetteer for Ethiopia's Somali Region ([GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/)), with **Wikidata** where it matches. Fields that two registers place within 4 km of each other are one row. Heights from OurAirports are in feet, from GeoNames in metres. For the Somali community of the region see [Somalis in Ethiopia](/en/diaspora/ethiopia/) and [Somalia and Ethiopia](/en/relations/ethiopia/). ## Jijiga: Garad Wiil-Waal Airport Garad Wilwal Airport (IATA JIJ, ICAO HAJJ), also written Garaad Wiil-Waal, serves Jijiga, the regional capital. It is 12 km east of the city and is named after Wiil Waal, a 17th-century ruler of Jigjiga ([Wikipedia, Jijiga Gerad Wilwal Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jijiga_Gerad_Wilwal_Airport)). Its single asphalt runway, 03/21, is 2,400 by 45 metres, at 5,937 feet (1,810 m) above sea level (same source; [OurAirports, HAJJ](https://ourairports.com/airports/HAJJ/)). Jijiga's first airfield, north-west of the city centre, was built in 1929. A crash there in July 1930, of a Fiat AS-1 trainer bought in 1929, was the second air disaster in Ethiopia, and the first pilot tests in Ethiopia were passed at Jijiga by Mishka Babitcheff and Asfaw Ali on 1 and 4 September 1930 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jijiga_Gerad_Wilwal_Airport), citing the [Nordic Africa Institute's local history of Ethiopia](http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/j/ORTJI.pdf)). By the 1990s the airport was one of 10 bases of the Ethiopian Air Force (same source). Ethiopian Airlines lists Jijiga in its domestic network ([Ethiopian Airlines](https://www.ethiopianairlines.com/us/book/network/domestic)). OurAirports lists the old field as closed ([OurAirports, ET-0001](https://ourairports.com/airports/ET-0001/)). ## Gode: Ugaas Mirad Airport Gode Airport (GDE, HAGO), named Ugaas Mirad Ugaas Leyli Airport after a former mayor of the town, has one asphalt runway of 2,288 by 35 metres at 254 metres above sea level. The Swedish firm Skanska began building it in 1965, and Emperor Haile Selassie opened it on **10 June 1966**. It was first a military air base and later also took civil flights ([Wikipedia, Gode Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gode_Airport), citing the [Nordic Africa Institute](http://130.238.24.99/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/g/ORTGIR.pdf)). ## Kebri Dahar (Qabridahar) Kabri Dar Airport (ABK, HAKD) has a 2,500 by 46 metre concrete runway at 549 metres (1,801 ft) ([Wikipedia, Kabri Dar Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabri_Dar_Airport)). On 12 June 1977 an Ethiopian Airlines Douglas C-47A (ET-AAP) was damaged beyond repair there when its left landing gear collapsed on landing ([Aviation Safety Network](http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19770612-1)). ## Smaller fields - **Warder:** WRA, HAWR, at 1,850 feet ([OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/HAWR/)). - **Shilavo:** HIL, HASL, a single unpaved runway ([Wikipedia, Shilavo Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilavo_Airport)). - **Kelafo, Geladi, Degehabur:** OurAirports lists Kelafo East (LFO) and Geladi (GLC), and the Degehabur field as closed ([OurAirports, Ethiopia](https://ourairports.com/countries/ET/airports.html)). - **Dolo:** built between 2009 and 2012 beside the Somali border to support UNHCR's refugee operation ([Wikipedia, Dolo Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolo_Airport)). - GeoNames marks further strips at Mustahil, El Carre, El Suga, God Dere, Hanan and Gurueragu, and abandoned fields at Har Adde and north of Gode. ## Every recorded airfield | Airfield | Town | Codes | Runway | Height | Position | Sources | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Degah Bur Airport | Degah Bur | | (closed) | 3550 ft | 8.234, 43.567 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/ET-0013/) | | Dolo Airport | Dolo | | | 630 ft | 4.175, 42.033 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/ET-0007/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/13393882); [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18206534); [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolo_Airport) | | Dolo Odo Nw | | | | 204 m | 4.208, 42.004 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/13393899); [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18206534); [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolo_Airport) | | El Carre | | | | 961 m | 5.84, 42.107 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/13393910) | | El Suga | | | | 377 m | 5.814, 44.557 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6311051) | | Geladi Airport | Geladi | GLC / HAGL | | 1383 ft | 6.984, 46.421 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/ET-GLC/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6311115) | | Gerad Wilwal International Airport | Jijiga | JIJ / HAJJ | 3/21 8202 ft Asphalt | 5954 ft | 9.332, 42.912 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/HAJJ/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/8659107) | | God Dere | | | | 417 m | 5.061, 43.973 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6311191) | | Gode Airport | Gode | GDE / HAGO | 04/22 7505 ft PEM | 834 ft | 5.935, 43.579 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/HAGO/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6297269) | | Gode North | | | (abandoned) | 584 m | 6.099, 43.886 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/13393890) | | Gurueragu | | | | 446 m | 6.358, 45.734 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6311112) | | Gurueragu East | | | | 347 m | 6.306, 46.223 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/13393898) | | Hanan | | | | 430 m | 6.158, 44.538 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/13393909) | | Har Adde | | | (abandoned) | 338 m | 5.882, 44.671 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6311049) | | Kebri Dahar Airport | Kebri Dahar | ABK / HAKD | 08/26 8202 ft Concrete | 1800 ft | 6.733, 44.241 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/HAKD/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6297274) | | Kelafo East Airport | Kelafo | LFO / HAKL | | 1730 ft | 5.657, 44.35 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/HAKL/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/7730589) | | Mandera North | | | | 193 m | 3.978, 41.865 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/13393892) | | Mustahil | | | | 318 m | 5.221, 44.734 | [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/6311148) | | Old Jijiga Airport | Jijiga | | (closed) | 5500 ft | 9.361, 42.789 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/ET-0001/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/7910383) | | Shilavo Airport | Shilavo | HIL / HASL | | 1296 ft | 6.078, 44.764 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/HASL/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/11694467) | | Warder Airport | Warder | WRA / HAWR | | 1850 ft | 6.972, 45.333 | [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/airports/HAWR/); [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/11608649) | ## Related - [Airports and airstrips of Gedo, Bakool, Bay and the Jubba valley](/en/infrastructure/airstrips-gedo-bakool-bay-juba/) - [Airports of North Eastern Kenya](/en/infrastructure/airports-north-eastern-kenya/) --- I want to help with this: email hello@calankii.com. 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