UGANDA / GRANDI

UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi visited South Sudanese refugees in Uganda on Monday and urged the leaders of South Sudan to “behave responsibly and not continue to ignore the plight of their own people.” UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:46
• Production Date: 30 August 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FILIPPO GRANDI
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; REFUGEE CAMPS; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN; UGANDA
• MAMS Id: 1699028
• Parent Id: 1699028
• Alternate Title: unifeed160830d

Description

STORY: UGANDA / GRANDI
TRT: 2:46
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 29 AUGUST 2016, ADJUMANI, UGANDA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, UN refugee chief, Filippo Grandi touring Nyumanzi transit center
2. Med shot, Grandi walking towards recently arrived South Sudanese refugees
3. Various shots, South Sudanese refugee children singing at the camp
4. Various shots, Grandi greeting the refugee children
5. Wide shot, Grandi and other UN and Government officials walking through the camp
6. Various shots, Grandi talking to a refugee family inside a makeshift tent
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees:
“Peace has to come to South Sudan. The leaders of that young country have to behave responsibly and not continue to ignore the plight of their own people.”
8. Wide shot, Taban and his friends having a chat
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Taban Arikaangjelo, South Sudanese Refugee:
“I was actually chased and shot almost too. But I sneaked, I escaped narrowly. That made me actually decide to run away to save my life from the trouble that had taken place from our place.”
10. Wide shot, refugees at the over crowed Nyumanzi transit center
11. Med shot, young children at the center
12. Wide shot, people at the transit center
13. Med shot, family inside a makeshift structure
14. Close up, a girl inside the makeshift structure
15. Wide shot, land given to the refugees
16. Med shot, new makeshift structures hosting refugees
17. Wide shot, refugee women walking on the road
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees:
“Nowhere in the world have I seen, and I have been in many refugee situations, no where in the world have I seen people settled with land, with shelter in less than two months.”
19. Wide shot, Grandi walking through the transit center
20. Med shot, Filippo Grandi talking to new refugee arrivals

Storyline

UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi visited South Sudanese refugees in Uganda on Monday (29 Aug) and urged the leaders of South Sudan to “behave responsibly and not continue to ignore the plight of their own people.”

Escaping from the recent violence in the capital city Juba, South Sudanese refugee Taban Arikaangjelo said “I was actually chased and shot almost too. But I sneaked, I escaped narrowly. That made me actually decide to run away to save my life from the trouble that had taken place from our place.”

Uganda is hosting more than 600,000 refugees, about half are from South Sudan. The country provides refugees with plots of land, allowing them to build homes, grow food and earn income.

Paying tribute to Uganda’s hospitality, Grandi said “nowhere in the world have I seen, and I have been in many refugee situations, nowhere in the world have I seen people settled with land, with shelter in less than two months.”

Uganda is hosting the highest number of refugees in its history. Nearly 90,000 refugees from South Sudan have crossed the border since renewed conflict broke out in July between government and rebels forces in the young nation.