Somalia's Fly Africa wants Addis to pay for downed plane

摘要

Recruited by Fly Africa this summer, US lawyer and lobbyist Jeremy Schulman will be talking not only with the Ethiopian government, but also with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations to informally negotiate compensation for his new client. The lawyer, who lives near Washington and is the co-founder and arbitration chairman of Schulman Bhattacharya, was also approached by the families of four of the victims of the crash to represent them. The Fly Africa plane was shot down on 4 May while attempting to land in Bardale, northwest of Mogadishu, carrying equipment and medical aid to be used to fight Covid-19. The Ethiopian forces, in the region to fight Al-Shabaab, have accepted blame for the incident. They claimed that the plane was shot down by mistake, believing it was an attempted suicide attack. Six people were killed, four Somalis and two Kenyans.