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.

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

One of the possibilities we could have is international helicopters operating across the border.

The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is very serious. The need for international aid is big and growing.

I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,

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.