Turkey among new donors shaking up humanitarian aid

Where most foreign volunteers do not dare to tread the streets of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Turkish aid workers have been driving in the streets, swimming in the sea and praying in local mosques.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an visited Somalia last August, the first head of a non-African state to do so for nearly 20 years. Turkey has since opened an embassy, started work on an international airport, offered Somalis scholarships to study in Turkey and made plans to build a new hospital.

According to the Prime Ministry