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GENEVA / AFRICA REFUGEE APPEAL
STORY: GENEVA / AFRICA REFUGEE APPEAL
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SOURCE: CH UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 1 JULY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
1 JULY 2014, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. External Shot, Palais des Nations
2 . Med shot, podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English), Antonio Gutteres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
"What we are asking today is that until the end of the year, the World Food Programme gets the 186 million dollars that are needed to make sure that the support to refugee populations in relation to their food security is fully re-established. 450,000 thousand refugees today are living with less than 50 per cent of the normal ration and this is something that is not acceptable."
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English), Antonio Gutteres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
" It's not that donors have been forgetting, UNHCR or WFP, the truth is that the multiplication of crises we are witnessing in 2014 and the fact that Africa is to a certain extent the forgotten continent, when attention is essentially on Syria, Ukraine and now Iraq has created a situation in which we are facing for the refugees in Africa, a food security crisis and this food security crisis needs to be addressed and the way to address it is to provide WFP , the additional resources that it needs to re-establish a normal support to the refugees in Africa, in relation to their food requirements."
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Etharin Cousin, Executive Director, World Food Programme:
"In the DRC, we are at the dire point of a complete pipeline break by September, if we do not receive additional resources. What that means in the DRC is that 30,000 people will not receive food assistance from WFP. We are often asked if it is so challenging to provide food assistance, why not cash and vouchers? The realty is that if you don't have the resources for food, you don't have the resources for cash and vouchers."
FILE – 29 MAY 2014, GAGA REFUGEE CAMP, CHAD
8. Various shots, refugees in camp
The heads of the World Food Programme and the United Nations refugee agency say funding difficulties have forced cuts in food rations for nearly 800,000 refugees in Africa, worsening already alarming levels of acute malnutrition, stunting and anaemia.
Speaking at a news conference in Geneva , Tuesday, World Food Programme, (WFP) Executive Director, Etharin Cousin and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Gutteres made an urgent joint plea for 186 million dollars to allow WFP to restore full food rations and prevent further reductions during the year.
2.4 million refugees in 22 countries depend on regular food aid from the World Food Programme.
High Commissioner Gutteres said 450,000 are already living with less than fifty per cent of the normal ration and this was not acceptable.
The World Food Programme chief singled out the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where, unless money comes in by September some 30,000 people will not be fed by the agency.
High Commissioner Gutteres said with multiplication of crises and attention focussing on Syria, Ukraine and Iraq, Africa was to a certain extent the forgotten continent..
refugees in Africa were facing a food security crisis that had to be met by giving WFP the resources it needs to provide normal support.
For its part, the UN Refugee Agency needs 39 million dollars to feed malnourished and vulnerable refugees in Africa.
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