SOUTH SUDAN / O’BRIEN WAU

United Nations Humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien said people in and around the South Sudanese city of Wau needed support and above all “protection.” UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:50
• Production Date: 2 August 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHEN O'BRIEN
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1685423
• Parent Id: 1685423
• Alternate Title: unifeed160802d

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / O’BRIEN WAU
TRT: 2:50
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNMISS
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 2 AUGUST 2016, WAU/AWEIL SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

2 AUGUST 2016, WAU, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, people walking in protection of civilians site
2. Med shot, displaced family
3. Med shot, O’Brien walking through camp
4. Various shots, O’Brien meeting with aid workers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O’Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“There is a very intense, as you can see by the spacing, a very intense camp here. It has got services but it now has got an extension. We are standing on the divide as I speak, and that is now also full.”
6. Med shot, children fetching water
7. Wide shot, cooking pot on fire
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O’Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“Of course it is going to require more for as long as it takes, whilst the violence and the cause of the humanitarian crisis that we have here both in nutrition terms for water provision, for removing waste and also making sure that they have good shelter and educational opportunities as well as protection.”
9. Wide shot, barbed wire around protection of civilians site
10. Med shot, displaced
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O’Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“We can see that many many people need the services, they need the support, and above all they need the protection. So we need to look not just at the bounds of the camp here, but we need to also look outside to see how people can be protected from the violence. And it is particularly children and women, people with medical conditions, and disabled people who need the support; but equally there are many many young men in particular but men generally who also need protection and they are being discriminated and not allowed to come to the camp very often. That is another big challenge that we have to face.”

2 AUGUST 2016, AWEIL SOUTH SUDAN

12. Med shot, O’Brien walking towards hospital
13. Wide shot, hospital
14. Med shot, mother and malnourished child
15. Wide shot, O’Brien listening to medical staff
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O’Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs:
“I have come to see for myself in Aweil, a place where I know recently well from the past, to see the development of humanitarian needs here. You can see it in the eyes of the mothers cradling extremely malnourished babies in the stabilization unit of the hospital, and it is absolutely vital that we make a proper assessment of the scale of need which has arisen because of all the challenges both climate and harvesting and seasonal as well as their context where there is uncertainty and even, certainly in many other parts of South Sudan, fear.”
21. Various shots, O’Brien being dressed up in traditional costume and beads
22. Wide shot, dancers singing and dancing

Storyline

United Nations Humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien said people in and around the South Sudanese city of Wau needed support and above all “protection.”

In a visit today (2 Aug) to a protection of civilians site in Wau, O’Brien said it was clear that people fleeing the violence in the area were in need of services whether inside or outside the camp. He said the camp was quickly becoming overcrowded and more assistance was required as “the violence and the cause of the humanitarian crisis” continued.

O’Brien also visited a hospital in Aweil where he received updates from medical aid workers and met with patients. He said the humanitarian needs there were visible “in the eyes of the mothers cradling extremely malnourished babies in the stabilization unit of the hospital.” He said there was a need to make proper assessments of the scale of need “which has arisen because of all the challenges both climate and harvesting and seasonal as well as their context where there is uncertainty and even, certainly in many other parts of South Sudan, fear.”

O’Brien is on a three day trip to the country in effort to assess the situation on the ground and renew calls for funding. The humanitarian response plan inside South Sudan had asked for almost $1.3 billion, but it has received only 40 percent of the funds. Over one and a half million people are internally displaced inside the country and another 4.8 million people are food insecure.