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SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL IDP RELOCATION
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL IDP RELOCATION
TRT: 1:58
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 11 JUNE 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
9 JUNE, 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, movement of IDP’s to new POC site
2. Med shot, IDP camp floods with water
3. Med shot, Hilde Johnson, Special Representative of the Secretary General and UN staff at the camp
4. SOUNDBITE(English) Hilde Johnson, Special Representative of the Secretary General, United Nations:
“The commissioning of the new POC site is absolutely critical, we've seen the condition people are living under here, absolutely unacceptable and we need to make sure that people can live dignified lives. There's too many and too little space and the mud has made it very, very, very difficult for them, so then the new POC site is critical with 8,000 people moving there. We can improve the conditions here, we can improve the conditions where they are moving to."
5. Med shot, Hilda and an IDP woman talking
6. Wide shot, IDPs walking in muddy water
7. Wide shot, people in new Protection of civilian POC site
8. Med shot, Rwandan Soldier on guard at the new POC
31 MAY, 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
9. SOUNBITE(English) Deborah Shien, State Coordinator, Upper Nile State:
“Security is the reason why the IDPs have come to UNMISS and our first term responsibility is to ensure that where they are is a safe area and secure area. With the arrival of the RWANBAT (Rwanda Battalion 2), we are able to then mend the central post and therefore provide the outer perimeter security."
9 JUNE, 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
10. Wide shot, people at the new POC site
11. Pan left, woman carrying belongings
31 MAY, 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
12. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Angelina Othow IDP mother of four:
“We are now coming to live here, but it is not the solution to our problems, we want peace so that our children can go back to school and be comfortable.”
31 MAY, 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
13. Wide shot, people in the new POC
14. Med shot, young girl frying coffee in new POC
15. Wide shot, children playing football in new POC
The United Nations(UN) Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has opened a new site adjacent to its base in Malakal to protect civilians uprooted by conflict.
The new camp will relieve the congestion inside the UNMISS compound, which is now hosting an estimated 19,000 people.
UNMISS chief Hilde Johnson said that creating the new site was “absolutely critical” given the conditions people are living in now, and that, “we need to make sure that people live dignified lives."
UNMISS opened its gates to all unarmed civilians facing imminent threat of physical violence when the crisis in South Sudan erupted in Juba last December. Over 93,000 civilians are currently living in ten of the mission’s compounds nationwide.
The new site can accommodate some 9,000 people and is under protection of the United Nations peacekeepers.
UN Upper State Coordinator Deborah Schein said that reinforcements should be able secure the perimeter for the displaced.
Angelina Othow, who came to Malakal with her children from an overcrowded camp,she said that was not a solution to their problems and that “we want peace so that our children can go back to school and be comfortable.”
The protection of civilians was given the utmost priority when the Security Council recently renewed the mission’s mandate, along with addressing the security, humanitarian and political crisis that has gripped the world’s youngest nation.
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