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SOUTH SUDAN / HUNGER
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / HUNGER
TRT: 03:09
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / DINKA / NATS
DATELINE: 5-8 MAY 2016, NORTHERN BAHR EL GHAZAL, SOUTH SUDAN
7 MAY 2016, AROYO, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, WFP food distribution
2. Pan right, from malnourished children to WFP Nutritionist Felista Busi
3. Close up, child’s arm being measured
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Felista Busi, WFP Nutritionist
“This is a girl and she is two years old and she is also severely malnourished. The MUAC is reading 11”
5. Close up, child’s arm being measured
6. Wide shot, Busi measuring child’s arm
7. Close up, woman’s arm being measured
8 MAY 2016, AWENG, SOUTH SUDAN
8. Wide shot, farmer Aping Riang and family heading off for a two week journey by foot back to Darfur
9. Med shot, Riang walking holding spear
10. SOUNDBITE (Dinka) Aping Riang, Farmer:
“I am leaving with anger and sadness because hunger is forcing me to leave my homeland. Your homeland is your homeland. If there was something to eat I would not even think of leaving.”
11. Close up, donkey loaded with possessions
12. Various shots, Aping’s children
13. Pan right, Aping and family taking off
5 MAY 2016, APADA, SOUTH SUDAN
14. Wide shot, village
15. Med shot, woman and children
16. Wide shot, Malang Gole walks into grass hut
17. Med shot, Gole pulls out photo of her son
18. Close up, photo of Gole’s son in military uniform
19. SOUNDBITE (Dinka) Malang Gole, Villager:
“My dead husband is from here. He made me promise not to take the children back to the north.”
20. Med shot, villagers sitting
7 MAY 2016, AROYO, SOUTH SUDAN
21. SOUNDBITE (English) George Fominyen, WFP Spokesperson:
“People are feeling the pinch of the bad weather conditions which led to failed harvest. They are feeling the pinch of the economic collapse in the country which means they don’t have enough money to buy food if they found it in the market and when they find the food in the market or anything they do need, it’s so expensive.”
6 MAY 2016, AWEIL SOUTH, SOUTH SUDAN
22. Various shots, farmers planting millet
7 MAY 2016, AWEIL SOUTH, SOUTH SUDAN
23. Various shots, people buying sorghum at market
7 MAY 2016, AROYO, SOUTH SUDAN
24. SOUNDBITE (English) George Fominyen, WFP Spokesperson:
“We are scaling up our response in this area so that we can be able to cater for this people. It is a process that we are beginning and needs allot of support and we are therefore calling on all our donor partners, who have supported us this far in the past two years of the conflict to come even more.”
25. Various shots, WFP distribution of special fortified foods and oil.
Around 5 million people – nearly half the population of South Sudan – could face acute hunger in the next three months during the lean season, when traditionally hunger worsens. Too many people are unable to meet their food needs because of the combined effects of more than two years of fighting, a collapsing economy, high food prices and erratic rainfall.
At a WFP food distribution, WFP nutritionist, Felista Busi tests women and children for malnutrition. A reading showing red, under-12, on the Middle Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) band means they are severely malnourished.
She tells a woman that 4 of her 5 children are severely malnourished and must go to the hospital.
SOUNDBITE (English) Felista Busi, WFP Nutritionist
“This is a girl and she is two years old and she is also severely malnourished. The MUAC is reading 11”
More testing for severe malnutrition takes place, including of a woman whose reading is less the 18. Severe malnutrition for women is under 21.
Aping Riang, a farmer who came to Aweng hoping to participate in the building a new country is heading , off into the bush on a two week journey by foot back to Darfur WITH his pregnant wife and 5 children.
Riang said they would walk another 4 hours before stopping to rest for the day.
“I am leaving with anger and sadness because hunger is forcing me to leave my homeland. Your homeland is your homeland. If there was something to eat I would not even think of leaving.”
Around 10,000 people, half the population of Apada, have fled to Sudan since January 2016. Originally from this area, they had returned from Sudan in 2010 in the hopes of building a new country in their ancestral land. So far according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) more than 50,000 returnees in South Sudan have gone back to Sudan.
Malang Gole hasn’t eaten in 2 days but will stay in Apada no matter what. She promised her dying husband that she would take their children home to their ancestral land. She hasn’t seen her son since he joined the SPLA (South Sudan Army) in 2011.
SOUNDBITE (Dinka) Malang Gole, Villager:
“My dead husband is from here. He made me promise not to take the children back to the north.”
Last year’s drought resulted in a failed harvest. Many have run out of food as they are planting, hoping for more rain this year.
SOUNDBITE (English) George Fominyen, WFP Spokesperson:
“People are feeling the pinch of the bad weather conditions which led to failed harvest. They are feeling the pinch of the economic collapse in the country which means they don’t have enough money to buy food if they found it in the market and when they find the food in the market or anything they do need, it’s so expensive.”
In the main market in the capital of Bahr el Ghazal, sorghum prices have doubled from 35 to 75 South Sudanese pounds since last year at this time.
SOUNDBITE (English) George Fominyen, WFP Spokesperson:
“We are scaling up our response in this area so that we can be able to cater for this people. It is a process that we are beginning and needs allot of support and we are therefore calling on all our donor partners, who have supported us this far in the past two years of the conflict to come even more.”
WFP is concerned about the rapidly worsening food situation in parts of the country that, for the most part, have not been directly affected by fighting, including Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Eastern Equatoria, and Warrap states. The lean season has started early in those areas, deepening humanitarian needs.
More people are fleeing across borders into neighbouring countries and many cite growing hunger as the main reason.
WFP’s internal analysis indicates that more than 5 million people in South Sudan will be severely food insecure during the May to August lean season, compared to 4.6 million at the same time last year. New areas of concern are the non-conflict affected states of Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Eastern Equatoria. Additional resources will be required while stocks are called forward to expand food assistance through the lean season.
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