UN / YEMEN UPDATE

A UN spokesperson said the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached families trapped in Yemen’s Durayhimi city with much “needed humanitarian assistance” for only the second time in a year. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:00
• Production Date: 22 October 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2481865
• Parent Id: 2481865
• Alternate Title: unifeed191022d

Description

STORY: UN / YEMEN UPDATE
TRT: 1:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 OCTOBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior

22 OCTOBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The World Food Programme says it has reached families trapped in Yemen’s Durayhimi city with much needed humanitarian assistance. This is only the second time in over a year that WFP has been able to reach the town which lies about 20 kilometres south of Houdeidah. While most of the city’s residents have fled, some 200 civilians remain and are not highly vulnerable as fighting rages around them. There are no functioning health facilities and shops are bare. Finding enough to eat is a struggle. Last week, WFP and sister UN agencies distributed a three-month supply of food, as well as nutrition supplements, water, medicine, and hygiene kits.”
5. Wide shot, press room
6. Wide shot, journalists

Storyline

A UN spokesperson said the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached families trapped in Yemen’s Durayhimi city with much “needed humanitarian assistance” for only the second time in a year.

Speaking to reporters in New York today (22 Oct), UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said most of the city’s residents have fled, however “some 200 civilians remain and are not highly vulnerable as fighting rages around them.” He added that there are no functioning health facilities and shops are bare in Durayhimi, which lies about 20 kilometres south of Houdeidah.

Dujarric noted that, last week, “WFP and sister UN agencies distributed a three-month supply of food, as well as nutrition supplements, water, medicine, and hygiene kits.”