the us special envoy to the horn of africa. jeffrey shelton stated recently that the, the e c o in crisis can make syria look like child's play. as a diplomat who spent the entirety of your 30 year career in the middle east, this was no small warning. the world needs to wake up to the gravity of the situation before us. millions of wise are at stake. so again, was chairman, thanks for calling attention to this grave situation and i look forward to the testimony that you're back. thank you, mr. mccall. i'm now turn to the chair and the ranking members of the subcommittee on africa. i'll yield one minute to chat with bass. thank you. i also think about now. ok. all right, i want to thank the chair and the ranking member for holding this hearing, but also for joining me and ranking member smith in leading house resolution for 45 that condemns all violence and human rights abuses, calls for unfettered humanitarian access to hold people accountable for human rights violations and calls on e t o p, to pursue a political solution to convene a credible and country wide process of national dialogu