Turkey to construct mosque, hospital, elementary schools and prayer rooms in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU (A.A) - October 29, 2011 - Turkey will construct a mosque, hospital, two elementary schools, and prayer rooms in the famine-stricken Somalia. The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKI) is planning to build a mosque, 200-bed hospital, two elementary schools and three prayer rooms in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. "Somali government has allocated a 50-hectares field for us," TOKİ expert Ahmet Deniz told AA correspondent. Somalia is currently facing with one of the worst droughts in the past 60 years.    The epicenter of the drought lies on the three-way border shared by Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, a nomadic region where families heavily depend on the health of their livestock. Uganda and Djibouti have also been hit by the disaster.    Tens of thousands of people have so far been displaced due to the humanitarian situation in the region.