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

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

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

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

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.