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SUDAN / DARFUR GRANDI
TITLE: SUDAN / DARFUR GRANDI
TRT: 3:01
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 14 – 15 AUGUST 2017, DARFUR, SUDAN
1 Wide shot, High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi and officials meeting with refugees
2. Various shots, Grandi with refugees
3. Med shot, South Sudanese women standing in queues
4. Close up, woman looking on
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“Most of them say that the main worry is war, is conflict, threatening their children, threatening the women, threatening their livelihoods, their homes. But coupled with lack of food and of course one thing compounds the other clearly.”
6. Med shot, Sadia Mohammed, South Sudanese Refugee carrying food into hut
7. Med shot, Sadia sifting grain
8. Close up, Sadias’s face as she sifts grain
9. Wide shot, Sadia and her daughter pouring grain into sack
10. Wide shot, Grandi talking to Sadia
11. UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“You were afraid?”
12. UPSOUND (Arabic) Sadia Mohammed, South Sudanese Refugee:
“We were afraid because there was a lot of shooting. There were explosions and shooting everywhere. We just had to protect the children and run with them.”
13. Wide shot, Sadia and her family walking out their hut
14. Med shot, Sadia sitting with her daughters
15. Close up, Sadia seated with her children
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sadia Mohammed, South Sudanese Refugee:
“I would like my children to continue with education. I had some income generating activities back at home but here I have nothing to do. I cannot provide for my children a good life.”
17. Wide shot, people waiting for food distribution
18. Close up, women waiting for food
19. Wide shot, women seated in queue waiting for food distribution
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“I was impressed by the hospitality that is provided here in this particular location by the local community to the refugees.”
21. Various shots, women and children walking at the camp
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“This is very sad that after all these months of bleeding its population outside, South Sudan has not yet found peace and this is really the responsibility of its leadership, of its opposition to start behaving responsibly.”
23. Various shots, children outside school compound
In Darfur, UNHCR High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi met with some of the 400, 000 refugees who have sought safety in Sudan as fighting escalates in South Sudan. Grandi called for an end to the violence that has devastated millions of lives.
Over 400,000 South Sudanese refugees have fled to Darfur, Sudan. They escaped violence and hunger in their home country.
UNHCR High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi visited Darfur and heard from some of the refugees.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“Most of them say that the main worry is war, is conflict, threatening their children, threatening the women, threatening their livelihoods, their homes. But coupled with lack of food and of course one thing compounds the other clearly.”
Sadia Mohamed and her children fled after their home was attacked. They travelled for more than a month to find safety.
UPSOUND (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“You were afraid?”
UPSOUND (Arabic) Sadia Mohammed, South Sudanese Refugee:
“We were afraid because there was a lot of shooting. There were explosions and shooting everywhere. We just had to protect the children and run with them.”
Sadia lost everything. She hopes she can rebuild her life here.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sadia Mohammed, South Sudanese Refugee:
“I would like my children to continue with education. I had some income generating activities back at home but here I have nothing to do. I cannot provide for my children a good life.”
More than 150,000 South Sudanese have fled to Darfur this year.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“I was impressed by the hospitality that is provided here in this particular location by the local community to the refugees.”
South Sudan is Africa’s largest refugee crisis. More than 1.8 million people have fled the country since fighting erupted in 2013.
SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“This is very sad that after all these months of bleeding its population outside, South Sudan has not yet found peace and this is really the responsibility of its leadership, of its opposition to start behaving responsibly.”
Millions of South Sudanese need urgent help and a peaceful solution.
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