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NIGERIA / EXTREME HUNGER
STORY: NIGERIA / EXTREME HUNGER
TRT: 2:59
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / KANURI / NATS
DATELINE: 17, 21, 24, 25 JANUARY 2017, BENE SHEIK – MONGUNO, NIGERIA
25 JANUARY 2017, BENE SHEIK, NIGERIA
1 Various shots, village chief showing market and home destructed by Boko Haram
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bulama Muhammad Chetima, Bene Sheik, Village Chief:
“Boko Haram killed people. More than 3000 people. More than 1000 houses burned. Our market destroyed. We not get market. We not get eat food.”
24 JANUARY 2017, DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP NEAR MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
3. Various shots, women queueing and carrying babies to be tested for severe malnutrition
4. Close up, arm band showing red indicating severe malnutrition
5. Med shot, girl with arm band
6. Close up, arm band
7. Wide shot, Bakasi displaced children receiving highly nutritious peanut supplement
20 JANUARY 2017, MONGUNO, NIGERIA
8. Med shot, displaced mother with her children
9. SOUNDBITE (KANURI) Yagana Modu, 35 year-old displaced mother of five children:
“Me and my children, we need food. The biggest problem we have is hunger.”
10. Close up, Yagana’s daughter eating highly nutritious peanut supplement
25 JANUARY 2017, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“What we need is the international community not to turn away from northeast Nigeria. There is a lot going on the world so, it’s easy to say that’s just one more challenge with another group of people who are suffering from insurgents and it’s not my problem. If there is a child, a mother, who cannot her child, a child who is born hungry, then that’s our problem.”
24 JANUARY 2017, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
12. Wide shot, displaced families by fighting living in a school
13. Close up, child
14. Various shots, WFP staff distributing cash to displaced people to support the local economy
17 – 18 JANUARY, MONGUNO, NIGERIA
15. Med shot, WFP staff in a helicopter flying into hard-to-reach areas
16. Aerial shot, affected areas
17. Med shot, WFP staff getting off the helicopter
24 JANUARY 2017, MUNA SCHOOL IN MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
18. Various shots, displaced people receiving food supplies
The United Nations (UN)’s World Food Programme (WFP) is extremely concerned about the critical food insecurity situation in north-eastern Nigeria, regardless of whether a famine can technically be declared.
According to the WFP, in Boko Haram-affected areas, Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, 4.7 million people are facing hunger, of which 1.8 million people are in need of emergency food assistance.
People in newly liberated areas suffer from extreme hunger and malnutrition. Children, in particular, suffer from severe acute malnutrition. By December 2016, an agile response, combining rapid air-and-road interventions, enabled WFP and partners to reach more than a million people in need, particularly in these high risk areas.
Persistent concerns aside, food and nutrition support has contributed to reducing mortality and the prevalence of acute malnutrition in the worst-affected areas. Food assistance may also be preventing famine in other hunger hotspots for internally displaced people.
Yagana Modu, a 35 year-old mother, fled her village with her husband and 5 children when Boko Haram attacked. Her husband tries to earn money selling water but, they are dependent on food aid to survive. Her children are eating a highly nutritious peanut based supplement provided by WFP.
She said “me and my children, we need food. The biggest problem we have is hunger.”
In November, with support from UNICEF, WFP launched a joint Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) to supply food, nutrition and health support to people in difficult-to-reach areas in Borno and Yobe states. The RRM includes extensive use of helicopters and the pooling of logistics and telecommunications resources across the humanitarian community.
By end of December 2016, WFP had assisted more than a million people, including more than 796,000 with life-saving food, 171,000 with cash-based transfers and 192,000 children with specialized food to combat malnutrition.
WFP’s chief Ertharin Cousin said “what we need is the international community not to turn away from northeast Nigeria. There is a lot going on the world so, it’s easy to say that’s just one more challenge with another group of people who are suffering from insurgents and it’s not my problem. If there is a child, a mother, who cannot her child, a child who is born hungry, then that’s our problem.”
The rapid response is part of WFP’s larger operational plan to gradually scale up to reach 1.8 million people a month with food and nutrition support in 2017.
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