Dubai (ANN)- The government of the Republic of Somaliland has signed an agreement to build Hargeisa’s Eigal International Airport with a company called Maharat Investment, based in the United Arab Emirates.
Somaliland’s Minister of Civil Aviation and Airport Development Fuad Ahmed Nouh, accompanied by the Minister of the Presidency Khadar Looge, is in the UAE. The Agreement for the Construction and Modernization of the Capital Airport of Hargeisa, Egal International Airport, was signed on behalf of Somaliland by the Minister of Civil Aviation and Airports Fuad Ahmed Nouh, but the person in charge of the International Maharat Investment Company, who signed the agreement, was not mentioned his name or position in the company mentioned.
The Somaliland government, for its part, announced that the Airport Construction Agreement, worth $70 MN Seventy Million Dollars, was signed on 17 Sep 2025, at the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC).
This project will be the largest investment in airport infrastructure in the Republic of Somaliland and the second largest foreign investment project after DP World’s investment in the port of Berbera.
The Somaliland government has said that work on the airport will begin within 6 months of signing the agreement.
There is no copy of the agreement or the manner in which it will be implemented that the press has seen, and it has also led to debates regarding the company with which the agreement was signed, the existence of which has raised concerns among many people in Somaliland society.
However, the brief information was published on tracxn.com, a technology-related website, and it appears that the brief information indicating the profile of Maharat, which does not have a website, appears to be unreliable and recent, with Maharat Company Profile  Last updated on September 3, 2025
 There is no detailed information about the company, but a website called tracxn.com us briefly describes the company as follows:
“Maharat is an unfunded company based in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), founded in 2004. It operates as an Online platform offering courses for professionals. Maharat has not raised any funding yet. The company has 5213 active competitors, including 156 funded and 120 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Coursera, upGrad and Adda247.””

Coursera, upGrad and Adda24, which are based in the United States and India, have worked on online courses.