Turkey to rehabilitate urban infrastructure in Somalia

MOGADISHU (A.A) – March 13, 2012 - Turkish Red Crescent and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality will rehabilitate urban infrastructure of Somali capital of Mogadishu, which has turned into a ruin due to the civil war and famine.  A solid waste treatment facility and a concrete facility will be constructed in Mogadishu within the scope of a project to reconstruct the capital city. "People got sick and face various health problems due to 700 tons of garbage that is kept outside camps," Mintez Simsek, a Turkish Red Crescent member, told AA correspondent. Simsek said Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Turkish Red Crescent would collect 700 tons of garbage every day, and sent them to solid waste treatment facility. Around 67 vehicles, work machines and solid waste treatment equipment would be brought to Somalia within a month, Simsek said.