Marina Ottaway Quotes

You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pictures of starving babies. What we're seeing, emergency after emergency, is that the international community does not get mobilized before there is an actual crisis.

- Marina Ottaway

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What I expect to happen is that the US will be very cautious in pushing for elections as soon as possible and particularly national level elections because it was quite clear that if democracy calls, the Islamists answer. - Marina Ottaway