Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

- Amanda Lindhout

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

- Amanda Lindhout

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

- Amanda Lindhout

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

- Amanda Lindhout

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

- Hawa Abdi

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

- Jan Egeland

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

- K'naan

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

- Michael Palin

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

- Mo Ibrahim

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

- Steven Cojocaru