"We are also assisting the refugees who have……" — Jan Egeland
"We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone."
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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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