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Mogadishu: ACT delivering essentials to the toughest spots
Aug 10, 2011
ACT member Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe distributes water, food and sheets for shelters in the refugee camp near Mogadishu.
Somalia: reputation opening doors to strong-hold areas
Aug 03, 2011
ACT members are carrying out life-saving work in Somalia's least hospitable regions
This is the last of my food
Jul 08, 2011
Laurie MacGregor reports from the Horn of Africa, where 10 million are at risk of starvation
ACT in Somalia
ACT Alliance organisations meet in what we call a Forum to do joint analysis of the national situation, and joint planning.
Link through to Forum page in ACT Groups
International organisations in Somalia
Organisations funding work in Somalia
- Bread for the World
- Christian Aid
- Church of Sweden
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Diakonie, Austria
- FinnChurch Aid, FCA
- Norwegian Church Aid
About Somalia
- Population: 9.1 million (UN, 2009)
- Capital: Mogadishu
- Area: 637,657sq km (246,201 sq miles)
- Major languages: Somali, Arabic, Italian, English
- Major religion: Islam
- Life expectancy: 48 years (men), 51 years (women)
- Monetary unit: 1 Somali shilling = 100 cents
- Main exports: Livestock, bananas, hides, fish
- GNI per capita: N/A