Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children. I heard they were making statements that they were proud of losing fewer arme…

- 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 practi…

- Jan Egeland

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

- 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 future.

- Jan Egeland

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing w…

- Jan Egeland

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

- Jan Egeland

Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

- Jan Egeland

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance effort…

- Jan Egeland

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - he…

- Jan Egeland