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GENEVA / YEMEN FOOD ASSISTANCE
STORY: GENEVA / YEMEN FOOD ASSISTANCE
TRT: 1:45
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 JANUARY 2019 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior shot, Palais des Nations.
2. Wide shot, United Nations Press room with podium.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Verhoosel, spokesperson, World Food Programme (WFP):
“For the first time since the increase in fighting in Hudaydah in June 2018 WFP managed to assist hard-to-reach areas of Tuhayat and Darayhimi. This can be thanks to an inconsistent de-escalation over recent days following the December peace talks in Stockholm, Sweden.”
4. Wide shot, press room.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Verhoosel, spokesperson, World Food Programme (WFP):
“So far WFP has dispatched more than 3,334 metric tonnes of food assistance to these areas, and that is simultaneously from both Aden and Hudaydah.”
6. Wide shot, podium.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Verhoosel, spokesperson, World Food Programme (WFP):
“8,125 households in Al Tuhayat have received enough assistance for two months and 2,662 families in Al Darayhimi, south of Hudaydah, have received food rations. Those are the first humanitarian shipments delivered since July 2018 when a WFP contracted truck was hit in the area.”
8. Med shot, onlooker.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Verhoosel, spokesperson, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We will adapt on a daily basis to the security situation on the ground; we encourage of course all parties to keep negotiating under the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy. The situation is better already, I mean, we are not exactly at the target, but we are not far away from the target.”
10. Med shot, journalists and TV cameras.
11. Close up shot, journalist with glasses.
12. Med shot, journalist writing on notepad.
13. Wide shot, journalists.
14. Med shot, journalists checking mobile phones.
Thousands of families in conflict-affected communities south of the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in Yemen have received aid for the first time in more than six months, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday (Jan 15).
Spokesperson Hervé Verhoosel confirmed that Al Tuhayat and Al Darayhimi had been reached thanks to a partial ceasefire deal agreed at UN-led talks between Government forces and Houthi opposition militia in the west of the country.
He said “for the first time since the increase in fighting in Hodeidah in June 2018 WFP managed to assist hard-to-reach areas of (Al) Tuhayat and (Al) Darahimi. This can be thanks to an inconsistent de-escalation over recent days following the December peace talks in Stockholm, Sweden.”
Aid was distributed from Hodeidah – a Houthi stronghold – and Aden, which is controlled by the internationally recognized Government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
“So far WFP has dispatched more than 3,334 metric tonnes of food assistance to these areas, and that is simultaneously from both Aden and Hudaydah,” the WFP spokesperson explained, adding that “8,125 households in Al Tuhayat have received enough assistance for two months and 2,662 families in Al Darayhimi, south of Hodeidah, have received food rations. Those are the first humanitarian shipments delivered since July 2018 when a WFP contracted truck was hit in the area.”
Last month, WFP scaled up the delivery of food and food vouchers to around nine million people in Yemen, up from seven to eight million in November. The aim in coming weeks is to reach 12 million people to help avert famine in the country, which was already one of the poorest countries in the world before conflict escalated in March 2015.
“We will adapt on a daily basis to the security situation on the ground,” Verhoosel said. “We encourage of course all parties to keep negotiating under the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy. The situation is better already, I mean, we are not exactly at the target, but we are not far away from the target.”
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