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SOUTH SUDAN / KUDA DISPLACED
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / KUDA DISPLACED
TRT: 3:02
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 AUGUST 2018, KUDA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, local Assistant Chief showing official from the United Nations Mission a freshly dug grave, and force protection
2. Various shots, signpost reading Kuda Primary School and Health Care Centre
3. Various shots, women and children in the vicinity of the school corridor seated and cooking
4. Close up, child drinking from cup
5. Wide shot, woman sweeping sleeping area inside classroom
6. Close up, blackboard
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Grace Yangi, Displaced Woman:
“No food. We are hungry. We are just depending on the greens. We only cook it with water. No salt. No oil, no groundnut paste. Our children’s eyes are swelling, our situation is very bad. We just depend on these greens – we divide it amongst the children on the plates and the children take it. Look at me; I have no milk for the child.”
8. Various shots, displaced walking through grassy patch carrying chairs, to attend meeting
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Masmina Munga, Civil Affairs, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“They are asking for food because – now they are here, but they have their own food in the villages where they came from. Now they have to go from here so they can get their own food to eat, but when they go there, the situation is still tense they can be attacked by those armed groups – those who attacked them. They are still around, so they fear. Their fear is [that] if they go, they will be killed, so it is better if the assistance is provided for them [here].”
10. Various shots, displaced people meeting under tree
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Grace Kani, Displaced Woman:
“We are asking the government to intervene to solve this issue so that the pastoralists can be removed from here, so that our place can be left free for us, because that is where we are used to getting food from the forest (farming). This is [the] one thing we want. Even if we say the government will come and help us, it’s like every day help, everyday help … won’t the government get tired?”
12.Wide shot, convoy driving along marram road
Ahead of the World Humanitarian Day, 14 people from five villages around Kuda, located 72 kilometers west of South Sudan’s capital Juba, have been killed and thousands displaced following separate attacks from pastoral communities in their area.
A team from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is in the area to investigate the killings.
There have been reports of unrest following allegations that one community attacked another, with an aim of stealing humanitarian supplies provided by the World Food Program.
About 600 households from five different villages have been displaced, and are living in a primary school located near South Sudan’s government military barracks.
The men, women and children have fled the insecurity of their homes, and they say they are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, proper health facilities, and protection.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Grace Yangi, Displaced Woman:
“No food. We are hungry. We are just depending on the greens. We only cook it with water. No salt. No oil, no groundnut paste. Our children’s eyes are swelling, our situation is very bad. We just depend on these greens – we divide it amongst the children on the plates and the children take it. Look at me; I have no milk for the child.”
Patrols from the UN Mission set out patrols to assess and monitor situations in various localities.
SOUNDBITE (English) Masmina Munga, Civil Affairs, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“They are asking for food because – now they are here, but they have their own food in the villages where they came from. Now they have to go from here so they can get their own food to eat, but when they go there, the situation is still tense they can be attacked by those armed groups – those who attacked them. They are still around, so they fear. Their fear is [that] if they go, they will be killed, so it is better if the assistance is provided for them [here].”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Grace Kani, Displaced Woman:
“We are asking the government to intervene to solve this issue so that the pastoralists can be removed from here, so that our place can be left free for us, because that is where we are used to getting food from the forest (farming). This is [the] one thing we want. Even if we say the government will come and help us, it’s like every day help, everyday help … won’t the government get tired?”
With South Sudan considered one of the most difficult and dangerous locations in the world for humanitarian actors to work in, UNMISS peacekeepers continue to work in support of the humanitarian aspect of its mandate, with teams continuing to crisscross various parts of the country, either on assessment missions or as protection force, creating conditions conducive to aid delivery.
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