As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.