"In the Horn of Africa now, there are……" — Jan Egeland
"In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in."
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24 Quotes by Jan Egeland
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No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.
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It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.
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First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.
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Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive…
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I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum -…
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I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of…
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I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal…
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In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can…
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Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.
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Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the…
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Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with…
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We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities…
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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