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We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too…

— Jan Egeland

We certainly would be happy for more help, but not at the price of condescension and arrogance. If the Europeans believe they can afford…

— Yoweri Museveni

In the current situation, it is very difficult for foreign NGOs to work in Somalia because it is so unstable and dangerous. I really…

— Waris Dirie

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best…

— Jan Egeland

I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful…

— Jan Egeland

It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

— Michael Palin

Somalia is facing many problems, I don't even know where to start.

— Waris Dirie

“But Ethiopia and America were nervous of an Islamic government and the US and other nations sponsored Ethiopia to invade Somalia and dispatch the…

— Ben Rawlence

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

— William Hague

The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding…

— Khaled Hosseini