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SOUTH SUDAN / FOOD AIR DROPS
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / FOOD AIR DROPS
TRT: 02:40
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NAT
DATELINE: 22 OCTOBER 2015, JUBA, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
22 OCTOBER 2015, JUBA, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Mongolia peacekeeper provides force protection at food air drop area
2. Med shot, air plane dropping food
3. Wide shot, sacks of sorghum dropped by plane
4. Close up, sacks of sorghum dropped by plane
5. Med shot, Mongolia peacekeeper provides force protection at food air drop area
6. Close shot, Mongolia peacekeeper holding gun while providing protection at food air drop area.
7. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) LT. Colonel J. Munkkh Bayar, Deputy Commander of Mongolian Fifth Battalion:
“We came to this place and secured the area at 7:30am in the morning before the air craft arrived, After that, the food dropping operation starts at 8:30am and ends around 17:00am.”
8. Med shot, Mongolia peacekeeper provides force protection at food air drop area
9. Wide shot, Mongolia peacekeeper provides force protection at food air drop area
10. Wide shot, Mongolia peacekeepers provide force protection at food air drop area
11. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) LT. Colonel J. Munkkh Bayar, Deputy Commander of Mongolian Fifth Battalion:
“Regardless of the difficulties and hot weather conditions, we work hard doing our best for this operation.”
12. Wide shot, World Food Programme trucks moving
13. Med shot, World Food Programme help workers lifting sack of sorghum
14Close shot, World Food Programme help workers lifting sack of sorghum
15. Wide shot, Mongolian peacekeepers lifting sack of sorghum
16. Med Shot, World Food Programme help workers carrying sack of sorghum
17. Pan shot, world food program help workers carrying sack of sorghum
22 OCTOBER 2015, JUBA SOUTH SUDAN
18. Wide shot, journalist and ministers sitting during press conference in Juba
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Beda Machar, South Sudan National Minister of Agriculture:
“We are also fully committed to ensuring enhanced trade in all areas of the country, uninterrupted access for humanitarian aid, and an enabling environment for the people to return to their homes to build and recovery on their livelihoods.”
22 OCTOBER 2015, JUBA, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
20. Pan left, women carrying sacks of sorghum
With the rainy season making roads impassable in South Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) began air dropping much-needed food in the Unity State.
The United Nation Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Mongolian battalion and military liaison officers provided force protection and crowd control capability to ensure safe collection, loading and delivery of the supplies to World food program Logistics Base at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan Bentiu compound.
SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) LT. Colonel J. Munkkh Bayar, Deputy Commander of Mongolian Fifth Battalion:
“We came to this place and secured the area at 7:30am in the morning before the air craft arrived, After that, the food dropping operation starts at 8:30am and ends around 17:00am.”
Being the first platoon tasked to protect the food air drop, MOMBAT made sure to secure the area for food air drops in Unity State.
The battalion has been doing their best carrying on an operation of about 7 to 8 hours a day Said LT. Colonel Munkkh Bayar, Deputy Commander of Mongolian fifth battalion.
SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) LT. Colonel J. Munkkh Bayar, Deputy Commander of Mongolian Fifth Battalion:
“Regardless of the difficulties and hot weather conditions, we work hard doing our best for this operation.”
Over 30,000 people in South Sudan's war-zone regions face death by starvation, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that "tens of thousands" more are on the "brink of famine."
While an official famine has not been declared, the report describes the worst conditions yet seen in a 22-month civil war marked by atrocities and accusation of war crimes.
The government of South Sudan in a press conference said that the Government is committed to the implementation of the recent signed compromised peace agreement (CPA) and working hard seeking a lasting peaceful solution to the ongoing political crisis, so that humanitarian and developmental work may continue.
SOUNDBITE (English) Beda Machar, South Sudan National Minister of Agriculture:
“We are also fully committed to ensuring enhanced trade in all areas of the country, uninterrupted access for humanitarian aid, and an enabling environment for the people to return to their homes to build and recovery on their livelihoods.”
So far, World Food Program has dropped close to 1,500 MT and plans to meet the shortfall for October 2015.
WFP will continue to drop another 1,200 MT per month for November and December.
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