SOUTH SUDAN HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan Eugene Owusu said that the humanitarian appeal launched late last year is only 29 percent funded. UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:23
• Production Date: 26 May 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1630650
• Parent Id: 1630650
• Alternate Title: unifeed160526f

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / HUMANITARIAN APPEAL
TRT: 1:23
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 26 MAY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, press briefing
2. Med shot, DSRSG Eugene Owusu, South Sudan Minister of Humanitarian, and Religiuos leader sitting
3. Med shot, journalist
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eugene Owusu, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative to South Sudan:
“We must capitalize on the momentum generated by the Summit (World Humanitarian Summit), to ensure that the global community does not allow South Sudan to become a forgotten crisis. The humanitarian appeal is today just 29 per cent funded. We need more contributions urgently in order to reach people in dire need across the country as they seek to regain their lives and livelihoods.”
5. Med shot, Owusu
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eugene Owusu, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative to South Sudan:
”The Summit reinforced the crucial role of financing as the key enabling and catalytic factor towards both meeting and reducing needs. All of these issues are of course particularly pertinent in South Sudan today, where the formation of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) brings hope that the needless suffering of so many civilians may finally come to an end”
7. Wide shot, briefing

Storyline

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan, Eugene Owusu said that the humanitarian appeal launched late last year is only 29 percent funded.

Speaking on the heels of this week’s World Humanitarian Summit, Owusu told journalists today (26 May) that, “we must capitalize on the momentum generated by the summit to ensure that the global community does not allow South Sudan to become a forgotten crisis.”

He stressed that the summit aimed to both meet and reduce needs and that the formation of the national unity brings hope to end the suffering in South Sudan.

Owusu said that the Summit affirmed that those who are most at risk of being left behind - including the more than 60 million people displaced worldwide, 2.3 million of them in South Sudan - will receive the global attention and support they deserve.

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