NIGER / GRANDI

United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited Niger where he travelled to the Diffa region, an area with over 250,000 people displaced by the militant group Boko Haram. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:29
• Production Date: 13 December 2016
• Asset Language: French
• Personal Subject: FILIPPO GRANDI
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: NIGER
• MAMS Id: 1795744
• Parent Id: 1795744
• Alternate Title: unifeed161213g

Description

STORY: NIGER / GRANDI
TRT: 2:29
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / KANOURI / NATS

DATELINE: 12 DECEMBER2016, DIFFA, NIGER

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, traditional chief on horse
2. Med shot, HC Filippo Grandi and government officials wave to displaced
3. Wide shot, Grandi and government officials arrive at welcoming event
4. Med shot, women at event
5. Close up, women at event
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“My presence here today is proof of the engagement of the United Nations and UNHCR to remain on your side.”
7. Wide shot, workers at gas plant
8. Close up, man filling a gas canister
9. Close up, worker at gas plant
10. Wide shot, Bintu walking to gas plant
11. Close up, of gas containers
12. Wide shot, of Grandi and officials at gas plant
13. Med shot, Grandi in front of gas canisters
14. Med shot, High Commissioner speaking with workers
15. SOUNDBITE (Kanuri) Bintu Musa, Displaced:
“Today we use gas which is less expensive. Also we have fewer problems than with the wood smoke, it’s always clean when we use gas because it doesn’t smell and it doesn’t burn our eyes.”
16. Med shot of Grandi speaking with Bintu
17. Med shot, Bintu explains gas usage
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“This is extraordinary because it saves money for people. It saves them the time that they have to go and cut the wood, it saves the environment from having that wood cut. It’s also more secure for people because this is not a completely safe region so for people to go out, especially children and young women, it’s very dangerous.”
19. Wide shot, displaced people listen to UNHCR chief
20. Wide shot, Grandi speaking to displaced
21. Med shot, refugees cheering

Storyline

United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited Niger where he travelled to the Diffa region, an area with over 250,000 people displaced by the militant group Boko Haram.

This includes refugees, returning Nigerien citizens and people forcibly displaced within the country’s borders. In Diffa, Grandi visited innovative projects supporting refugees and the communities who’ve taken them in.

Support has brought innovation to the refugees and the local communities, like the use of cooking gas. Grandi said this saves money and time and is more secure in this dangerous environment.

Grandi aims to call attention to the needs of more than 2 million people displaced across the region by Boko Haram, and urge the world to act.

The visit to Niger is part of a ten day trip including Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria to call attention to the needs of more than 2 million people displaced by Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin.