Nowhere else on earth is so much at stake as in Africa. It is here where most lives are at stake.
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We must be acutely aware that all that has been built up by the thousands of relief workers and hundreds of millions of dollars in donor contributions could be destroyed, and we could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation.Jan Egeland
Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.
Jan Egeland
I would salute the very effective American efforts to warn the populations of the imminent danger and the very successful evacuation.
Jan Egeland
I think in many ways we can some up now the one year anniversary of this terrible natural disaster that the emergency relief went better than we feared but the reconstruction and rebuilding is taking more time than we hoped. There was no second wave of death and disease as was feared but too many people have their first anniversary in the same tent they were given in the first months.
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The important thing is that we give and that we as citizens also demand that our countries give generously to those who have been so hard hit.
Jan Egeland
The PricewaterhouseCoopers project will be an Internet-based tracking system for the whole cycle from the pledge to the actual dispersion, ... real time tracking of which pledges we get, when they are committed, when they are dispersed and when they are realized by which organization in the field.
Jan Egeland
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