"It is only the Somalis themselves - and……" — Jan Egeland
"It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution."
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Jan Egeland
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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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In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.
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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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