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CHAD / MUELLER HUMANITARIAN VISIT
STORY: CHAD / MUELLER HUMANITARIAN VISIT
TRT: 03:41
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTION: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 FEBRUARY 2018, BOL, BRIM, YAKOUA IDP SITE, LAKE REGION, CHAD
27 FEBRUARY 2018, BOL AND BOL AIRPORT, LAKE REGION, CHAD
1. Various shots, Lake Chad
2. Wide shot, Ursula Mueller, getting off UNHAS plane and greeting by the Governor of the Lake region, Mahamat Abali Salah
3. Med shot, Governor of the Lake region (on the right), Mueller (in the middle) and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations in Chad (HC), Stephen Tull (on the right), at Bol airport
4. Wide shot, official greeting with music and horses
5. Close up, Mueller shaking hands
6. Various shots, Governor Abali Salah and Mueller waving at cavaliers
27 FEBRUARY 2018, YAKOUA IDP SITE, LAKE REGION, CHAD
7. Wide shot, Mueller talking with displaced men in Yakoua IDP site
8. Various shots, Mueller listening to internally displaced women and men
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Here I have seen the regional impact of the Boko Haral crisis and the violence of other armed groups. Here in Yakoua IDP camp, some 137,000 people have fled to find shelter and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. I have talked to Fatima who was about to receive cash transfer that giver her also the dignity to decide what she wants to buy to feed her children. These people are finding shelter here right now because if they go back they face violence.”
10. Med shot, internally displaced women finger prints being taken
11. Med shot, Mueller holding up the cash transfer card received by the internally displaced woman who is sitting next to her with a baby
12. Med shot, internally displaced women finger prints being taken
13. Med shot, internally displaced women finger prints being taken
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We are here in an area close to Lake Chad which is potentially a fertile area. So, it is necessary that we move from providing humanitarian assistance to recovery, that people start rebuilding their lives. We appeal to the Government to provide also durable solutions to the people as long as they are here; or to the international community to start providing development assistance, to provide the boats and the nets so that they can go fishing and feed themselves.”
27 FEBRUARY 2018, BRIM, LAKE REGION, CHAD
15. Med shot, Mueller looking at an eggplant produced jointly by internally displaced women and local communities hosting them
16. Wide shot, internally displaced women and other women from the local communities sitting
17. Med shot, Mueller looking at and smelling a carrot produced jointly by internally displaced women and local women hosting them
18. Wide shot, Mueller talking and laughing with women from the local community
19. Wide shot, internally displaced women and other women from the local communities sitting
20. Wide shot, internally displaced women watering onions in a field
United Nations (UN) Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ursula Mueller, concluded an official visit to Chad which was the last stop in a trip that took her to the Central African Republic (CAR), Cameroon and Chad from 18 to 27 February 2018.
The purpose of her mission was to see, first-hand, the devastating humanitarian consequences of the ongoing violence affecting CAR and the Lake Chad Basin. In Chad, she has met with the Prime Minister, as well as the newly appointed Governor of the Lac region. She travelled to Bol and met internally displaced persons in Brim and Yakoua.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Here I have seen the regional impact of the Boko Haral crisis and the violence of other armed groups. Here in Yakoua IDP camp, some 137,000 people have fled to find shelter and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. I have talked to Fatima who was about to receive cash transfer that giver her also the dignity to decide what she wants to buy to feed her children. These people are finding shelter here right now because if they go back they face violence.”
The crisis in the Lake Chad basin affects nearly 500,000 people in the Lac region of Chad including 137,000 displaced people, who are particularly vulnerable. The closure of the border with Nigeria from the beginning of the crisis in 2015 and the continued implementation of emergency measures have also affected the livelihoods of local populations already facing poor regional development, thus aggravating their vulnerability.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We are here in an area close to Lake Chad which is potentially a fertile area. So, it is necessary that we move from providing humanitarian assistance to recovery, that people start rebuilding their lives. We appeal to the Government to provide also durable solutions to the people as long as they are here; or to the international community to start providing development assistance, to provide the boats and the nets so that they can go fishing and feed themselves.”
The crisis in the Lac region unfolds against a wider backdrop of recurrent food and malnutrition crises and entrenched poverty throughout Chad. Countrywide, close to 4 million people need emergency food assistance while over 200,000 children under five are at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition.
In 2018, the UN and its partners need $544 million to provide emergency aid to 1.9 million people who are the most vulnerable in the country. To date, only 3.7 per cent have been met.
Humanitarian needs stretch far beyond the Lac region. Chad is home to more than half-a-million people who have had to flee violence and conflict. There are about 634,000 people displaced in Chad, including 102,000 internally displaced populations and 320,000 refugees who have fled insecurity in Sudan (since 2003), at least 75,000 refugees from the Central African Republic (since 2003 and 2014) and 9,000 Nigerian refugees (since 2015). Given the level of insecurity in their areas of origin, their return prospects are slim. It is therefore necessary to promote sustainable solutions, including their socio-economic integration into host communities.
Chad is the first refugee host country in Africa in relation to its population. Despite surrounding conflicts and an unprecedented economic crisis, aggravated by the closure of three of its borders, Chad has remained relatively stable. Chad has the second highest level of food insecurity worldwide and the number of children under 5 years old suffering from malnutrition is alarming. Current seasonal deterioration of food security indicators reflects extreme vulnerability in the country.
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