I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

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

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

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

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive.

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 we can do.