Construction by three Turkish firms of a new $10-million airport terminal in Somalia and a 23-kilometer road connecting it to the capital city, Mogadishu, will continue to completion despite a deadly late-July embassy attack by a militant group linked to al-Qaeda.
The July 27 attack on the Turkish embassy building in Mogadishu, which left one Turkish guard dead and three others seriously injured, has injected some uncertainty into protective measures that were agreed upon at a conference on Somalia. The conference, held in London in May, sought to assure investors and infrastructure companies that there would be calm in the war-ravaged country.