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SOUTH SUDAN / KANG PRESSER
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / KANG PRESSER
TRT: 1:49
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 21 NOVEMBER 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1.Wide shot, Kang arriving for press conference
2. Med shot, journalists
3. Wide shot, head table
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-Wha Kang, UN Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“I came here just over a year ago in November 2013 and I am heartbroken to see that the promising young country that I was able to see then is suffering so greatly.”
5. Wide back shot, conference room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-Wha Kang, UN Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“Humanitarians will work hard to continue helping the most vulnerable, but we will never be able to keep up as the conflict continues to generate more people in need and more displacements.”
7. Wide shot, press room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-Wha Kang, UN Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“As the dry season begins we are concerned about violence will further escalate. Fighting has already started in Unity and Upper Nile States and military mobilization reported in Jonglei state also. And if this continues more people will suffer.”
9. Med shot, photographer
10. Wide shot, conference room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-Wha Kang, UN Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“Funding that comes now will save more lives my appeal to humanitarian donor organizations to stay the course to continue to fund us, the funding must be sustained to meet the great need to preposition during the dry season and we need six hundred million by mid-February.”
12. Med shot, journalists
13. Wide shot, press room
United Nations (UN) Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kyung-Wha Kang, concluded her three day mission to South Sudan today, calling on all parties to the conflict to respect their ceasefire commitments and urged the international community to continue providing support to enable humanitarians to scale up and expand critical aid operation.
The yearlong conflict has been brutal, said Kang. Civilians have been killed, raped and beaten, homes torched, lives ruined. Fighting has destroyed communities and separated families.
Addressing the press in Juba, Kang said that “the level of violence experienced by civilians in South Sudan has been devastating.”
Kang’s last visit to the country was just a year ago and she said she was “heartbroken to see that the promising young country that I was able to see then is suffering so greatly.”
Despite the extremely difficult situation for aid workers, who face active hostilities, access and logistical challenges as well as threats to their own lives, the United Nations Humanitarian agencies and partners have reached more than 3.5 million people with the assistance since war broke out this year. However, the situation remains bleak and the number of people who are severely food insecure is projected to increase to 2.5 million people in early 2015.
The scale of the need is great said Kyung-Wha Kang, however, much we scale up operations, humanitarian agencies will never be able to do enough if the conflict continues to destroy lives and livelihoods.
Aid agencies are planning for next year and are urgently calling for US$600 million by February to kick start next year’s operation.
During her stay Kang visited communities affected by the crisis in Juba and Jonglei State. She also met with government officials and humanitarian partners and discussed ways of improving access and strengthening protection of civilians.
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