SIERRA LEONE / EBOLA BANBURY

The Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury, travelled to Freetown where he conducted a series of meetings, including with President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone. UNMEER.

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:52
• Production Date: 11 December 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR EBOLA EMERGENCY RESPONSE – UNMEER
• Subject Topical: HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
• Geographic Subject: SIERRA LEONE
• MAMS Id: 1263579
• Parent Id: 1263579

Description

STORY: SIERRA LEONE / EBOLA BANBURY
TRT: 1.52
SOURCE: UNMEER
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 DECEMBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA / 11 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE

Shotlist

11 DECEMBER 2014, ACCRA, GHANA

1. Med shot, SRSG Tony Banbury having his temperature checked before boarding aircraft
2. Wide shot, Banbury boarding aircraft
3. Aerial shot, Ghana coast

11 DECEMBER 2014, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE

4. Zoom out, Banbury descending from aircraft
5. Med shot, young man disinfecting hands with chlorine at Freetown Airport
6. Pan left, Banbury walking towards helicopter
7. Med shot, Banbury boarding helicopter
8. Med shot, shadow from helicopter propellers
9. Aerial shot, Freetown
10. Wide shot, Banbury descending from helicopter
11. Med shot, Banbury being greeted by UNMEER staff
12. Wide shot, UN vehicles driving through town
13. Wide shot, child running
14. Wide shot, UN vehicles driving through town
15. Wide shot, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma leaving meeting
16. Close up, soldier
17. Wide shot, Banbury leaving meeting
18. Various shots, meeting on Western Area Surge at the British Council
19. Pan right, Freetown skyline

Storyline

The Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury, today (11 December) travelled to Freetown where he conducted a series of meetings, including with President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone, one of the three hardest-hit countries, together with Guinea and Liberia, is among the poorest in the world.

The visit comes one day after Time magazine recognized the Ebola responders as “Person of the Year.” The United Nations congratulated the front line workers in the field battling Ebola on their recognition by the magazine.

Banbury participated in a briefing at the former Special Court for Sierra Leone and later met with military logisticians at the British Council on the western area surge. The latest effort to contain Ebola in the Sierra Leone capital.

To date, close to 18,000 cases of Ebola have been reported in West Africa with more than 6,300 deaths, according to WHO, and Sierra Leone now has the highest total number of reported cases with 7,897 cases reported to date.