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UN / SOUTH SUDAN UPDATE
STORY: UN / SOUTH SUDAN UPDATE
TRT: 01:35
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV / UNHCR
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
26 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Spokesperson Farhan Haq at the podium
3. Med shot, reporters
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General:
“The recent fighting in South Sudan has to date forced more than 37,000 people to flee the country to Uganda. This represents more refugee arrivals in Uganda in the past three weeks than in the entire first six months of 2016. The new arrivals in Uganda are reporting ongoing fighting as well as looting by armed militias, burning down of homes, and murders of civilians. Some of the women and children said they were separated from their husbands or fathers by armed groups, who are reportedly forcibly recruiting men into their ranks and preventing them from crossing the border. The humanitarian response to the influx of South Sudanese refugees is sorely lacking due to severe underfunding, with the inter-agency appeal being only funded at 17 per cent so far.”
5. Med shot, reporters
6. Wide shot, Haq at the podium
FILE - 9 JUNE 2016, ADJUMANI, UGANDA
7. Pan right, refugees on back of truck with personal belongings
8. Med shot, refugee child descending truck with help of adult
9. Med shot, refugee woman walking off with suitcase on head
10. Wide shot, crowd of refugees with belongings
11. Med shot, woman walking
12. Tilt up, refugee registration
13. Wide shot, scores of people around UNHCR truck with belongings
14. Various shots, woman cooking
According to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), more refugees have arrived in Uganda in the past three weeks than during the entire first six months of 2016, when 33,838 came there in search of safety.
Recent fighting in South Sudan has to date forced 37,491 people to flee to Uganda.
UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters in New York today (26 July) that “the recent fighting in South Sudan has to date forced more than 37,000 people to flee the country to Uganda.”
The new arrivals in Uganda, he said, are reporting “ongoing fighting as well as looting by armed militias, burning down of homes, and murders of civilians. Some of the women and children said they were separated from their husbands or fathers by armed groups, who are reportedly forcibly recruiting men into their ranks and preventing them from crossing the border.”
On 25 July an estimated 2,442 refugees were received in Uganda from South Sudan. Some 1,213 crossed at the Elugu border point in Amuru, 247 in Moyo, 57 in Lamwo and 370 in Oraba. Another 555 were received at the Kiryandongo settlement. The majority of arrivals – more than 90 per cent – are women and children. People are coming from South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region, as well as Juba and other areas of the country.
Haq said “the humanitarian response to the influx of South Sudanese refugees is sorely lacking due to severe underfunding, with the inter-agency appeal being only funded at 17 per cent so far.”
The influx is straining the capacity of collection points, and transit and reception centres, which are too small for the growing number of arrivals. During the course of the weekend, humanitarian organizations worked to decongest the collection points and installed temporary shelters to increase capacities. UNHCR has deployed additional staff, trucks and buses to assist.
South Sudan’s conflict, which erupted in December 2013, has produced one of the world’s worst displacement situations with immense suffering. Some 1.69 million people are displaced inside the country, while there are now 831,582 South Sudanese refugees abroad, mainly in Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda.
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