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UGANDA / SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES
STORY: UGANDA / SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES
TRT: 2:41
SOUCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 AUGUST 2016, ORABA BORDER, UGANDA / 17 AUGUST 2016, BIDI BIDI REFUGEE SETTLEMENT CENTRE, UGANDA / 18 AUGUST 2016 NYUMANZI REFUGEES TRANSIT CENTRE, UGANDA
17 AUGUST 2016, ORABA BORDER, UGANDA BORDER WITH SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, truck carrying South Sudanese belongings at the border
2. Med shot, South Sudanese refugees collecting belongings from the truck to be relocated to Bidi Bidi refugee Settlement
3. Various shots, women and children collecting belongings to be relocated to Bidi Bidi refugee Settlement
4. Med shot, newly arrived refugees from South Sudan eating biscuits
18 August 2016 Nyumanzi Refugees Transit Centre, Uganda
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Sackett, World Food Programme Director in Uganda:
“Uganda is hosting a record number of refugees, almost half a million, they come from Burundi, DRC but particularly from South Sudan which has been affected by very serious fighting initially at the end of 2013, but even as recently as last month. Since that time, 75,000 new people have come into Uganda and the World Food Programme is providing essential food rations to them.”
6. Various shots, newly arrived South Sudanese refugees receiving hot meals (maize meal and beans) provided by WFP
17 August 2016, Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement Centre, Uganda
7. Wide shot, pan to right, refugees receiving food from WFP
8. Various shots, refugees receiving food
9. Wide shot, Halima walking in the camp with her children
10. Soundbite (Arabic) Halima, South Sudanese Refugee:
"When the crisis started there was shooting everywhere and people began to run. People were killed. They killed my husband. When I realised my husband was dead, I took the children and fled across the border into Uganda. We went through the forest and we finally got to Uganda."
11. Various shots, Halima and other refugees eating WFP provided hot meals
The World Food Programme (WFP) is implementing an emergency operation to assist up to 80,000 South Sudanese refugees who arrived in northern Uganda after renewed conflict in South Sudan. Overall, WFP is assisting close to half a million refugees in Uganda.
The WFP Director in Uganda said “Uganda is hosting a record number of refugees, almost half a million, they come from Burundi, DRC but particularly from South Sudan which has been affected by very serious fighting initially at the end of 2013, but even as recently as last month.”
He added after the recent fighting in South Sudan, “75,000 new people have come into Uganda and the World Food Programme is providing essential food rations to them.”
Halima is a twenty-two-year-old mother of four children. She arrived one week ago at the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement centre in Uganda, after her village Yei in South Sudan was attacked. Her husband was shot dead.
Speaking about her experience, she said "when the crisis started there was shooting everywhere and people began to run. People were killed. They killed my husband. When I realized my husband was dead, I took the children and fled across the border into Uganda. We went through the forest and we finally got to Uganda."
According to WFP, the record high number of refugees in Uganda is largely due to the conflict that broke out in South Sudan on 15 December 2013, as well as the renewed insecurity in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Due to severe funding shortfalls, WFP has to reduce rations for all refugees who arrived in Uganda before July 2015. Refugees who arrived afterwards, as well as the particularly vulnerable - the elderly, orphans, and those in need of treatment for malnutrition - will continue to receive a full ration. Cuts are expected to affect about half of all refugees on food assistance.
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