UN / ETHIOPIA HUMANITARIAN NEEDS

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the humanitarian needs in Ethiopia have tripled since the beginning of 2015 due to the El Niño weather phenomenon. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:22
• Production Date: 4 January 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; WEATHER
• Geographic Subject: ETHIOPIA
• MAMS Id: 1542306
• Parent Id: 1542306
• Alternate Title: unifeed160104b

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STORY: UN / ETHIOPIA HUMANITARIAN NEEDS
TRT: 01:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Wide shot, exterior of the UN Headquarters

04 JANUARY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Wide shot, spokesperson arriving
4. Cutaway, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“The World Food Programme is saying today that humanitarian needs in Ethiopia have tripled since the beginning of 2015 - as severe drought in some regions, exacerbated by the strongest El Nino in decades, caused successive harvest failures and widespread livestock deaths. Out of 10 million people now requiring urgent humanitarian assistance, the World Food Programme is expected to support the government in meeting the needs of 7.6 million people in 2016. Yet so far, less than 5 percent of the resources required for the first six months of the year are available.”
6. Cutaway, reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“The World Food Programme also says that the government is leading a well-coordinated response, and has devoted enormous resources of its own to addressing the growing humanitarian needs, but that a crisis of this scale urgently requires significant support from the international community.”
8. Cutaway, reporters
9. Zoom out, end of press conference

Storyline

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the humanitarian needs in Ethiopia have tripled since the beginning of 2015 due to the El Niño weather phenomenon.

In a statement read to reporters in New York today (4 Jan), Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General said, in Ethiopia, “severe drought in some regions, exacerbated by the strongest El Niño in decades, caused successive harvest failures and widespread livestock deaths.”

Dujarric said “out of 10 million people now requiring urgent humanitarian assistance, the World Food Programme is expected to support the government in meeting the needs of 7.6 million people in 2016.”

He added in that so far, “less than 5 percent of the resources required for the first six months of the year are available.”

The spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General said that “The World Food Programme also says that the government is leading a well-coordinated response, and has devoted enormous resources of its own to addressing the growing humanitarian needs, but that a crisis of this scale urgently requires significant support from the international community.”

El Niño is a warming of the central to eastern tropical Pacific that occurs, on average, every two to seven years. During an El Niño event, sea surface temperatures across the Pacific can warm by 1–3°F or more for anything between a few months to a year or two.

El Niño impacts weather systems around the globe so that some places receive more rain while others receive none at all, more extremes becoming the norm.

The majority of climate models suggest the 2015/2016 El Niño will be of similar strength to one from 1997/1998, which brought record global temperatures alongside droughts, floods and forest fires.