SOUTH SUDAN / SECURITY COUNCIL WAU

United States (US) Ambassador Samantha Power told a group of displaced in Wau, South Sudan, “we feel your fear and we hear your suffering, we know how much you are suffering.” UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:17
• Production Date: 4 September 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: SAMANTHA POWER
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; REFUGEE CAMPS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1701132
• Parent Id: 1701132
• Alternate Title: unifeed160904b

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / SECURITY COUNCIL WAU
TRT: 02:17
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 04 SEPTEMBER 2016, WAU, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Various shots, protection of civilians site Wau
2. Wide shot, Samantha Power arriving at the PoC site
3. Med shot, women at the site welcoming Power
4. Wide shot, Samantha Power walking at the PoC site
5. Various shots, Samantha Power greeting civilians at the site
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Please know that we feel you fear and we hear your suffering, we know how much you are suffering. It is true that you are not able to go to see your homes many of which have been destroyed, but we believe you. You know best about what is happening to your families.”
7.Various shots, internally displace persons
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We have come as UN Security Council to try to determine how we can strengthen UNMISS, how we can push the government and other parties to implement the peace agreement, and how we can secure accountability for the horrible crime that have been committed here and around the country.”
9. Various shot, internally displaced persons

Storyline

United States (US) Ambassador Samantha Power told a group of displaced in Wau, South Sudan, “we feel your fear and we hear your suffering, we know how much you are suffering.”

Speaking to a group at a Civilian Protection Site (PoC), Power said on Sunday (4 Sept) that they were in the country to try to determine how they can strengthen UNMISS, how they can push the government and other parties to implement the peace agreement, and how they can secure accountability for the horrible crimes that have been committed in Wau and elsewhere in South Sudan.

Wau was part of a three-day tour in South Sudan by the delegation, to see for themselves and hear first-hand about the ongoing conflict.

The ongoing violence in and around Wau has resulted in the repeated displacement of more than 78,500people. This includes 39,800 internally displaced people currently sheltering at various locations in Wau town.