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DRC / DISPLACED BY CONFLICT
STORY: DRC / DISPLACED BY CONFLICT
TRT: 02:45
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: SWAHILI / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 NOVEMBER 2017, NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
1. Aerial shot, fog over mountains
2. Aerial shot, settlements in Masisis
3. Wide shot, Valentin Muhindo walking out of his house and sitting on a small bench
4. Med shot, Muhindo talking to a visitor with his children in the background
5. Close up, Muhindo’s hand
6. Wide shot, Muhindo talking to a visitor outside his house while children sit
7. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Valentin Muhindo, Internally Displaced Person (IDP):
“We witnessed a lot of violence, we have seen people dying, militias started going into houses looting goods and cattle, beating people, and we were afraid. We fled with nothing.”
8. Various shots, Muhindo performing carpentry work
9. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Valentin Muhindo, Internally Displaced Person (IDP):
“I have eight children and I live with another four that we knew and met along the way. I took the four children while we were fleeing because they were separated from their parents.”
10. Various shots, aerial views of settlements
11. Wide shot, Masisis center
12. Wide shot, people walking through busy town
13. Med shot, women holding vegetables
14. Wide shot, bananas on sale
15. Wide shot, displacement site in Bukombe
16. Med shot, displacement site with child standing outside
17. Close up, clothes on plastic roof of a house
18. Wide shot, displacement site, house structures, and displaced people
19. SOUNDBITE (French) Andreas Kirchhof, External Relations Officer, UNHCR:
“There are dozens, thousands of displaced here who live in the camp without any prospects and who want to restart normal lives. Right now, what UNHCR is doing to help those returning to their homes is to help them reintegrate and also to help those who can’t return right now because of the security situation.”
20 Med shot, displaced persons preparing ground to build shelter
21. Wide shot, displaced persons preparing ground
22. Close up, displaced person preparing ground
23. Aerial shot, settlements
24. Aerial shot, settlements on mountain
More than one million people have been displaced by conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2018. Valentin Muhindo is one of them.
Fifty-two-year-old Muhindo fled his small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province in August 2018, when rebel groups clashed in his village.
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Valentin Muhindo, Internally Displaced Person (IDP):
“We witnessed a lot of violence, we have seen people dying, militias started going into houses looting goods and cattle, beating people, and we were afraid. We fled with nothing.”
He now lives in an area called Masisis, where he works as a carpenter with a few tools he managed to carry when he fled. But jobs are hard to come by and he struggles to provide for his children.
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Valentin Muhindo, Internally Displaced Person (IDP):
“I have eight children and I live with another four that we knew and met along the way. I took the four children while we were fleeing because they were separated from their parents.”
Even after civil war ended in 2003, the nation has continued to experience waves of fighting – especially in the eastern parts of the country.
A number of ongoing local conflicts mean the risk of further displacement remains high and reaching the most vulnerable is difficult.
Those displaced need shelter, food and medical care. Most of them have been through traumatic experiences and continue to fear for their lives.
SOUNDBITE (French) Andreas Kirchhof, External Relations Officer, UNHCR:
“There are dozens, thousands of displaced here who live in the camp without any prospects and who want to restart normal lives. Right now, what UNHCR is doing to help those returning to their homes is to help them reintegrate and also to help those who can’t return right now because of the security situation.”
UNHCR has urged all parties to the violence to immediately cease targeting of civilians.
It has also called on the Government of DRC to address the causes of forced displacement and to engage in seeking solutions for the victims.
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