We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

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

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.

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

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

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

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.