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SOUTH SUDAN / DISPLACED RELOCATION
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / DISPLACED RELOCATION
TRT: 2:42
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 AUGUST 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, IDPs at Tomping
2. Med shot, aid worker registering IDPs
3. Close up, aid worker registering IDPs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Muhumure, Officer in Charge for Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP) Section, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“We have to make that it is voluntary, it is dignified, and it have in a way that help to protect the safety and security of the people. Let us remember that primarily they are here for protection and Tomping was not meant to be a POC (Protection Of Civilians site).”
5. Various shots, IDPs going through security clearance to board buses
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Muhumure, Officer in Charge for Relief, Reintegration and Protection (RRP) Section, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“As you know, there is an outbreak of cholera in Juba. And if you see this Tomping area, it is a swampy area and it’s prone to flooding and that makes the risk of serious disease outbreak very high.”
6. Various shots, IDPs with their belongings
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah Curwen, Camp Manager, International Organization of Migration (IOM):
“We have had around 200 odd people come to us and say that they have family at that site so we are expecting to unify more people in the coming days. The projected plan, eventually, the idea is to move everybody to the site in UN House. We as IOM will be moving everybody who is willing to go, who wants to go to that site. We’ll make them aware of the services that are available in the UN House POC and then those who are willing to go will be register here in the transit site; and then they are move in convoy as this people are doing this morning.”
9. Various shots, IDPs boarding buses
10. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Matok, internally displaced person:
“My family are there and that’s why now am going there. But the situation for me here there is no any problem but the problem is that when my brothers and mother and father are there, I am far from them. And this will be good for me because I don’t know what is going on there with them”.
11. Various shots, Convey leaving Tomping
The United Nations (UN) Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) moved some 1,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) from the Tomping transit point to protection of civilian sites (POCs) at the UN House in Juba.
People displaced by the violence in and around the city had fled to Tomping last month when fighting broke out between forces loyal to President Silva Kiir and then-Vice President Riek Machar. Flooding, lack of proper sanitation, congestion and poorly constructed housing were just some of the issues that IDPs have dealt with at the site.
Sam Muhumure, chief of the Relief, Reintegration and Protection Section at UNMISS said it was important to make sure the transfer was “voluntary and dignified.” He said the “swampy” nature of Tomping made “the risk of serious disease outbreak very high” especially with the cholera outbreak Juba was currently facing. He said the UN House was a well design protection site that could provide not only physical protection but also protection from diseases.
International Organization of Migration (IOM) camp manager Hannah Curwen said the projected plan was to eventually move all those at the Tomping site to the UN house. She said some 200 people had told IOM that they had families there and they would be uniting them in the coming days. She said IOM was making people “aware of the services that are available in the UN House POC” and those willing to go would be moved in convoys.
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