Thank you very much, Chair. I very much appreciate our witnesses' testimony. However dark it may be certainly is not their issue. This is certainly one of the worst situations we've heard about in this committee in this session of Parliament.
We had two witnesses yesterday, Ian Spears and Ken Menkhaus, who made some observations. I might want to confirm some of their observations with you so that we have it on the record for our report.
You've mentioned, now, al Shabaab shaking down and killing people, the clan violence between each other, and the security forces killing civilians. There must be a diminishment to make things worse, a diminishment of NGOs that would have the capacity to be there and keep themselves safe. Because of the security situation, is there a significant number of NGOs that have left the area that would normally serve these displaced people?
Ms. Bader.