UN / NIGERIAN REFUGEES RETURN

30,000 Nigerian refugees who fled their homes following deadly attacks by non-state armed groups in December last year and January of this year, returned from Cameroon to Nigeria over the past two days, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Friday. UNIFEED / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:06
• Production Date: 1 March 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: CAMEROON; NIGERIA
• MAMS Id: 2363766
• Parent Id: 2363766
• Alternate Title: unifeed190301d

Description

STORY: UN / NIGERIAN REFUGEES RETURN
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 01 MARCH 2019, NEW YORK CITY /FILE

Shotlist

RECENT - NEW YORK CITY

1. Exterior shot, UN Headquarters

1 MARCH 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that yesterday, an estimated 20,000 refugees reportedly returned to the northeastern Nigerian town of Rann from Cameroon. Since Wednesday, some 30,000 refugees have returned to Rann. They are among the more than 40,000 Nigerian refugees who originally fled Rann following deadly attacks by non-state armed groups in December last year and January of this year.”
5. Cutaway, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General:
“Reports indicate that the returnees are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. International and national humanitarian organizations have not returned to Rann since 17 January due to ongoing insecurity. An estimated 5,000 Nigerian refugees remain in Goura in Cameroon and are expected to return to Rann today.”

FILE - 1 FEBRUARY 2019, GOURA, CAMEROON

7. Various shots, refugees coming in, carrying their belongings
8. Various shots, refugees settling in makeshift camp
9. Med shot, boy looking at people arriving
10. Wide shot, refugees arriving in camp

Storyline

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York that yesterday (28 Feb) “an estimated 20,000 refugees reportedly returned to the northeastern Nigerian town of Rann from Cameroon; since Wednesday, some 30,000 refugees have returned to Rann.”

Those refugees are among the more than 40,000 Nigerian refugees who originally fled Rann following deadly attacks by non-state armed groups in December last year and January of this year.

Dujarric noted that “the returnees are in dire need of humanitarian assistance” and that the . “nternational and national humanitarian organizations have not returned to Rann since 17 January due to ongoing insecurity.”

There are still some 5,000 Nigerian refugees sheltering in Goura in Cameroon, Dujarric said, but they are also expected to return to Rann today.

The Cameroonian town of Goura lays some eight kilometres away from Rann, just across the border with Nigeria.