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GENEVA / NIGERIA DISPLACED
STORY: GENEVA / NIGERIA DISPLACED
TRT: 3:07
SOURCE: UNTV CH / RECENT
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 FEBRUARY 2019, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations exterior
05 FEBRUARY 2019, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Frantz Celestin, Nigeria Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“Since November we’ve seen 59,200 – since, in last two years we have not seen that many people on the move. And it’s been - what we’ve seen in the last few months - especially the last two months of the year, is an increased sophistication of the non-state armed groups, an increased number of attacks and success in taking towns.”
4. Wide shot, dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Frantz Celestin, Nigeria Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“Rann was attacked twice, on the 14th and then again on the 27th. In both cases, we find a large number of those who were already in camps inside Rann moving across Cameroon, in the villages across the border, to seek refuge.”
6. Wide shot, press room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Frantz Celestin, Nigeria Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“Nobody was spared in Rann on January 14 attack; you know, MSF, the MSF clinic was burned down, IOM hub was attacked, the UNICEF clinic was attacked, the WHO, ICRCs compounds were attacked. In fact, MSF’s was completely burned down.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Frantz Celestin, Nigeria Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“There were a number of people who moved across a number of villages in Cameroon. Some of them were returned, were forced; they crossed the border and they were turned back. And for the recent one, I don’t have the specific numbers; I’ve heard 30,000 but I have not been able to prove it.”
10. Close up, hands typing
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Frantz Celestin, Nigeria Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“One of our biggest issues in north-east Nigeria in addition to the security issues is the land, access to land. We have a number of camps that are overcrowded, in fact, if we were to take all of the camps together, we would have more than 249,000 people in camps that are completely congested, with Monguno being the largest one of them.”
12. Med shot, photographer, dais
UNIFEED - 01 FEBRUARY 2019, GOURA, CAMEROON
13. Various shots, Nigerian refugees carrying their belongings
14. Wide shot, refugees walking in makeshift camp
15. Med shot, woman sitting on ground in front of tent
16. Med shot, women and children sitting in tent
17. Med shot, child sitting in tent
18. Wide shot, Nigerian refugees carrying their belongings
The UN Migration Agency (IOM) said an upsurge in violence in north-east Nigeria has displaced nearly 60,000 people in the last three months marking the highest exodus in recent years.
Armed extremists, notably Boko Haram militants, have contributed to a decade-long humanitarian crisis in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) states, that has spilled over into the Lake Chad region. IOM’s Chief of Mission in Nigeria, Frantz Celestin, told journalists in Geneva, “Since November we’ve seen 59,200 – since, in last two years we have not seen that many people on the move.” He said the last two months of 2018 witness “an increased sophistication of the non-state armed groups, an increased number of attacks and success in taking towns.”
Civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflict that has led to widespread forced displacement and violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.
Since the start of the crisis, more than 27,000 people have been killed in the three north-eastern BAY states, according to the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) and thousands of women and girls have been abducted.
Meanwhile, Government efforts to drive back the non-state armed groups that operate in the north-east of the vast country have been hindered by the Harmattan dust cloud – an annual phenomenon that sweeps across west Africa from approximately November to March.
Celestin told journalists that “nobody was spared” by attacks last month in the town of Rann.
He said, “The MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) clinic was burned down, [the] IOM hub was attacked, the UNICEF clinic was attacked, the WHO [and] ICRCs compounds were attacked; In fact, MSF’s was completely burned down.”
Noting that Rann was attacked twice, on the 14th (January) and then again on the 27th”, Celestin added that the displaced also sought refuge in neighbouring countries of the Lake Chad region.
“In both cases, we find a large number of those who were already in camps inside Rann moving across Cameroon, in the villages across the border, to seek refuge,” he said.
Amid ongoing insecurity, humanitarian access is limited, hampering the ability of aid agencies to assess needs comprehensively.
“There were a number of people who moved across a number of villages in Cameroon,” Celestin said. Some of them were returned, were forced; they crossed the border and they were turned back. And for the recent (displacement) one, I don’t have the specific numbers; I’ve heard 30,000, but I have not been able to prove it.”
The ongoing crisis has also pushed tens of thousands of civilians fleeing into already overcrowded camps, mainly in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.
“One of our biggest issues in north-east Nigeria in addition to the security issues is the land, access to land,” Celestin said. “We have a number of camps that are overcrowded, in fact, if we were to take all of the camps together, we would have more than 249,000 people in camps that are completely congested, with Monguno (Borno) being the largest one of them.”
According to OCHA, 7.7 million people in Nigeria were in need of humanitarian assistance, and 1.7 million people were classified as “food insecure” between October and December 2018.
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