Photo: #UN Special humanitarian envoy, Kjell Magne Bondevik, addresses a press conference in Nairobi in May 2006 to appeal to the government of Eritrea to release nearly 100,000 tons of food aid feared to be rotting in warehouses.
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UN Special humanitarian envoy, Kjell Magne Bondevik, addresses a press conference in Nairobi in May 2006 to appeal to the government of Eritrea to release nearly 100,000 tons of food aid feared to be rotting in warehouses. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Bondevik addresses poverty, underdevelopment in Africa

Broadcast: Midmorning, 03/08/2007, 9:00 a.m.

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He has served as pastor and prime minister of Norway. Now he tries to solve humanitarian crises in one of the most tumultuous parts of the world, the Horn of Africa.

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  • Kjell Magne Bondevik: Prime minister of Norway from 1997 - 2005. Currently, he is the United Nation's Special Humanitarian Envoy for the Horn of Africa.

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