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

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

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 practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.

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.