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SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNICEF FOR SOUTH SUDAN FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE – UNICEF - 10 – 12 AUGUST 2016, MUNA CAMP, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
1. Pan right, mothers waiting outside UNICEF tent
2. Med shot, health worker measures arm of malnourished child
3. Close up, health worker measures arm of malnourished child
4. Tilt up, malnourished child sitting on mother’s lap
5. Tilt up, health worker measures weight of malnourished child
6. Close up, mother feeds Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to malnourished child
7. Med shot, mother feeds RUTF to malnourished child
FILE – UNSOM - 02 FEBRUARY 2017, HARGEISA, SOMALILAND
8. Various shots, village
9. Various shots, some of the remaining livestock in the village
10. Wide shot, a woman grazes her goats in in the field
FILE – WFP - 20 OCTOBER 2016, SANA’A, YEMEN
11. Wide shot, woman and children walking through destroyed neighbourhood
12. Wide shot, destroyed car among rubble
13. Close up, child cooking tomatoes
14. Med shot, child cooking tomatoes
FILE – WFP - 22-23 OCTOBER 2016, HAJJAH, YEMEN
15. Med shot, mother sitting by malnourished daughter
16. Close up, malnourished child
17. Close up, child being checked for malnutrition
FILE – UNICEF - 25-26 JULY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
18. Wide shot, malnourished child in clinic
19. Rack focus, malnourished children
20. Various shots, child being checked for malnutrition
21. Med shot, mother helping her malnourished daughter walk
22. Med shot, mother giving her malnourished daughter a bath
23. Tracking, mother carrying her malnourished daughter
The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said access to food has been dramatically reduced in areas suffering civil conflicts and drought is worsening food security across swathes of East Africa despite robust global food supplies.
In a report released Wednesday (01 Mar), FAO said 37 countries require external assistance for food including 28 African nations suffering the lingering effects of last year's El Niño-triggered droughts on harvests in 2016.
Famine has been formally declared in parts of South Sudan and there is grave concern regarding the food security situation in northern Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen. FAO said some 100,000 people were facing famine in South Sudan and about 4.9 million people across the country were classified as facing crisis, emergency or famine. That number is projected to increase to 5.5 million, or almost half the country's population, at the peak of the lean season this July. FAO added that 8.1 million people in northern Nigeria were facing acute food insecurity conditions and require urgent life-saving response and livelihood protection despite the above-average cereal harvest in 2016.
The FAO report noted that the risk of a famine declaration in the Yemen was very high as 17 million people, two-thirds of the population, were estimated to be food insecure and almost half of them were in need of emergency assistance. FAO pointed to conflict, civil insecurity and drought as factors which resulted in more than double the number of people, now estimated at 2.9 million, being severely food insecure from six months ago.
FAO said conflicts in Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Myanmar and Syria were also exacerbating food insecurity conditions for millions of people and affecting nearby countries hosting refugees. The Organization added that drought in East Africa late last year heightened food insecurity in several countries in the sub-region.
FAO lists the 37 countries currently in need of external food assistance as Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
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