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

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.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

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.

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

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.

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