Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) has suspended its services to the Somalian towns of Berbera and Hargeisa owing to sub-standard infrastructure. Flights between Addis Ababa International and the capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa, were only recently resumed after an extensive USD4million upgrade to the airport's runway and facilities, funded by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development and carried out by China's Hono Group. However, the local Somaliland press claims that the quality of work done to runway 06/24 has allegedly proven substandard resulting in Ethiopian suspending its flights. During Hargeisa's closure, Ethiopian had moved its operations to Berbera, site of a former Soviet air base, but there too, flights have now also been suspended. A disagreement over which airports would be served is understood to have arisen resulting in the suspension of flights to both towns.