Jan Egeland Late Quotations

We have received more pledges in the past week than we have in six months. But it is too late for some of these children.

The backdrop is a dramatic one in Zimbabwe, one of the most dramatic in the world. Life expectancy has plummeted from around 63 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s to 33.9 years in 2004. This is a meltdown. This is a nearly halving of life expectancy.

Then we could have not only a tsunami-style casualty rate as we have seen late last year, but we could see one hundred times that in a worst case.

I am very worried about it, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.