SOUTH SUDAN / TORIT PEACEKEEPING PATROLS

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is planning to step up its patrols in the town of Tori to include patrolling on foot through the town and at night to create a more secure environment. UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:29
• Production Date: 24 August 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: DAVID SHEARER
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; CRIME PREVENTION; PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1955322
• Parent Id: 1955322
• Alternate Title: unifeed170824e

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / TORIT PEACEKEEPING PATROLS
TRT: 1:29
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH

DATELINE: 23 AUGUST 2017, TORIT, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Tracking shot, Rwandan Battalion departs UNMISS Torit Field Office
2. Close up, Rwandan Battalion on back of truck
3. Med shot, Rwandan Battalion on back of truck
4. Close up, peacekeeper on back of truck
5. Med shot, SRSG David Shearer meeting with Imatong State Governor, Tobiolo Alberio Oromo
6. Close up, Shearer
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS:
“We believe that Torit has an enormous amount of potential. It has got good hard-working people and great soils. It should be one of the most prosperous places in the country. I think we are on the path to creating that sort of a future.”
8. Med shot, Shearer and Oromo during joint press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMISS:
“I mentioned to the Governor that our UNMISS people which have been moving out on patrols, I think, have created perhaps more stability and confidence, confidence building. I offered more in that regard to be able to do that.”
10. Med shot, Shearer and Oromo shake hands:
11. Wide shot, barbered wire of old market no longer in use outside of UNMISS Torit office
12. Med shot, Rwandan Peacekeeper looking out of tower on duty at UNMISS Torit field office
13. Close up, hand of Rwandan Peacekeeper in tower on duty at UNMISS Torit field office
13. Med shot, Rwandan Peacekeeper in tower on duty at UNMISS Torit field office
14. Wide shot, UN Peacekeepers drive off

Storyline

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is planning to step up its patrols in the town of Tori to include patrolling on foot through the town and at night to create a more secure environment.

Torit, a town in Eastern Equatoria was once safe but is now a target for criminals. Some of the violence is political with ongoing intercommunal clashes and violence between those involved in the broader South Sudanese conflict.

Others are motivated by the dire economic situation to rob and loot simply to survive.

The Head of the mission, David Shearer said Torit “has an enormous amount of potential” as it has got “good hard-working people and great soils” and “should be one of the most prosperous places in the country.”

After meeting Imatong State Governor Tobiolo Alberio Oromo, he said the patrols have created “more stability and confidence.”

The roads in the region are in a poor condition with many inaccessible because of damage caused by war and weather as well as an ongoing risk of ambushes by armed groups.

The deployment of the Regional Protection Force to Juba will enable existing UNMISS troops to expand their operations to places like Torit, particularly to patrol strategically important roads to make travel safer and to facilitate trade.