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SOUTH SUDAN / IDPS
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / IDPS
TRT: 1:36
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 21 OCTOBER 21, 2014, JUBA, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
17 OCTOBER, 2014 – BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, flooded POC camp in Bentiu
2. Med shot, IDP crossing flooded road
3. Shot, Women in a flooded area
4. Med shot, woman cleaning flooded compound
21 OCTOBER, 2014 – JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
5. Med shot, Derk Segaar during press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Derk Segaar, head of UN Resident’s Coordinators Office Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP):
“Still in our view it is a temporary solution that we hope to reverse when stability returns so that people can go home. It was also very much a measure of last resort that I don’t think it is a good situation for anybody to be confined in these small spaces for a prolonged period of time.”
17 OCTOBER, 2014 – BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
7. Med shot, IDP’s walking in flooded area
8. Med shot, IDP going to his place
9. Med shot, IDP working on his home protecting it from flood
21 OCTOBER, 2014 – JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Derk Segaar, head of UN Resident’s Coordinators Office Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP):
“My biggest concern is about Bentiu and the terrible conditions that are there in the protection site.”
17 OCTOBER, 2014 – BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
11. Med shot, woman cleaning her place
12. Med shot, young boy crossing flooded area
13. Wide shot, Men carrying food stuff crossing flooded road.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has opened new sites adjacent to its bases to protect civilians uprooted by conflict. The new sites have been constructed in Juba, Malakal and Bor.
Addressing the press today (21 Oct) Derk Segaar, head of UN Resident’s Coordinators Office Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP), said that when the crisis started, the UN faced with a large group of people that were running for their lives and they were looking for protection inside UNMISS bases. In response UNMISS let them in in a very unplanned manner never expected so many people to come and never expected them to stay for so long.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Derk Segaar head of UN Resident’s Coordinators Office Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP):
“Still in our view it is a temporary solution that we hope to reverse when stability returns so that people can go home. It was also very much a measure of last resort that I don’t think it is a good situation for anybody to be confined in these small spaces for a prolonged period of time.”
So as a transitional solution to try and improve the situation for the IDP’s in a short term basis, UNMISS has built a number of new sites.
Because of the heavy rains in Bentiu the POC site is in a really dire situation and it is located in a flood plain and the conditions are so bad. The site that hosts around 50,000 IDP’s is pretty much continuously flooded and there is no physical improvement that the UN can do right now said Derk Segaar.
SOUNDBITE (English) Derk Segaar head of UN Resident’s Coordinators Office Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP)
“My biggest concern is about Bentiu and the terrible conditions that are there in the protection site.”
The Bentiu POC area for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Sudan's Northern Unity State was completely submerged following heavy rainfall earlier this week, worsening refugees' plight.
Segaar added that the mission will continue to work with UN agencies and humanitarian partners to drain water with the use of pumps and excavators to alleviate the unacceptable living conditions facing most of the site's population.
South Sudan's government has been at war with rebel groups since 15 December, when a clash between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar snowballed into full-scale fighting.
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