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SOUTH SUDAN / PEACEKEEPERS PATROL
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / PEACEKEEPERS PATROL
TRT: 2.29
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /MURLE /NATS
DATELINE: 3 DECEMBER 2014, MANYERAN-PIBOR, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, peacekeepers on Infantry combat vehicle (ICV)
2. Med shot, peacekeeper
3. Wide shot, muddy dirt-road
4. Med shot, peacekeeper waving
5. Wide, ICV moving
6. Wide shot, line of ICV’s moving
7. Med shot, Maj. Vicram Nalawade, talking on Radio
8. Med shot, peacekeepers
9. Med shot, Maj. Vicram Nalawade, waiving to civilians
10. Wide shot, arriving at Manyeran village
11. Med shot, children and cattle
12. Wide shot, peacekeeper on top of ICV in front of Manyeran village
13. Med shot, Maj. Vicram Nalawade talking to civilians from Manyeran village
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maj. Vicram Nalawade, Peacekeeper:
“As we go from people to people we talk to them, we understand some security issues or some attacks going to take place so it gives us some early warning and it gives us some reaction time for us to be prepared and help them to direct them to our protection of civilians’ area.”
15. Wide shot, cattle camp Manyeran village
16. Med shot, veterinary
17. Wide shot, villagers preparing their cattle
18. SOUNDBITE: (Murle) Patum Lom, resident of Manyeran
“We are so happy to see the UN peacekeepers in our area. We have seen difficult situation in the past years with clashes all around us and we were protected by the UN. Now to see them come to our village and help us with the veterinary and medical means a lot to us. We also get food assistance from humanitarian agencies.”
19. Wide shot, peacekeepers returning
The United Nations peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan is stepping up its military patrolling in Grater Pibor Administration in parts of Jonglei State in a bid to improve protection of civilians and establish a better security environment.
The peacekeepers patrol -that starts at dawn from the UNMISS camp- uses infantry combat vehicle (ICV) to reach the rough and distant areas around greater Pibor Administration area. As for the terrain, the environment is frequently impassable with few paths and muddy dirt-roads. Vehicles can hardly make it out of the towns.
While on patrols, the ‘blue helmets’ arrived at a village called Manyeran. They camp for some hours and prepare to give the villagers veterinary and medical services. People in in this area depend on animals for their livelihood; however, local veterinary services continue to remain scarce and costly.
Fighting between the South Sudan Army (SPLA) and former rebel David Yau Yau militia group had forced almost the entire population of Pibor County to flee into the bush. Yau Yau rebelled against South Sudan’s ruling party (SPLM) after the April 2010 elections when, as an independent candidate, he lost his campaign to represent Gumuruk–Boma constituency in Pibor county at Jonglei state assembly.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) welcomes the signature of the agreement reached in Addis Ababa on 9 May 2014 between the Government of the Republic of South Sudan and the South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army (Cobra Faction) on the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Greater Pibor County, Jonglei State.
During their patrol the peacekeepers treated twenty six patients and around three hundred and thirty five animals received treatment.
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