BURKINA FASO / DISPLACED POPULATION

Burkina Faso, one of the least developed countries in the world, is watching a disaster unfold, as hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee violence committed by armed extremists. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:09
• Production Date: 6 February 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FILIPPO GRANDI
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: BURKINA FASO
• MAMS Id: 2529216
• Parent Id: 2529216
• Alternate Title: unifeed200206d

Description

STORY: BURKINA FASO / DISPLACED POPULATION
TRT: 2:09
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / GOURMATCHÉ /NATS

DATELINE: 2-4 FEBRUARY 2020, KAYA / WENDOU, BURKINA FASO

Shotlist

2 FEBRUARY 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO

1. Various shots, displaced people sitting
2. SOUNDBITE (Gourmatché) Hamidou Billarga, village chief displaced from Sahel region:
“For us they’re the same people, those who come to steal, those who come to kill. It’s the jihadists.”
3. Wide shot, women and children sitting
4. Close up, displaced woman
5. Various shots, Grandi talking to displaced people
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I’m shocked by the extent of the humanitarian needs. This is a humanitarian emergency of big proportions. These people basically have nothing.”

3 FEBRUARY 2020, WENDOU, BURKINA FASO

7. Wide shot, group of IDP men
8. Wide shot, girls at a waterhole
9. Various shots, displaced in camp

2 FEBRUARY 2020, KAYA, BURKINA FASO

10. SOUNDBITE (Gourmatché) Hamidou Billarga, village chief displaced from Sahel region:
“Most of my family have made it here but have nothing to eat. We sleep outside, and have to keep some of our belongings outside, too.”
11. Wide shot, school building in Wendou with bullets on the ground
12. Pan right, little girl walking
13. Close up, children
14. Close up, girl in Wendou

Storyline

Some 600,000 people have become internally displaced in Burkina Faso, having fled the northern and eastern regions of the country to neighboring provinces. Their hosts, who are fellow citizens themselves face poverty, strained health services, inadequate schools and rapidly disappearing livelihoods as temperatures rise and their land becomes barren.

Earlier this week, an unidentified group of men killed 20 civilians in an attack on Lamdamol village in the northern province of Seno. The attack came just a week after one on a market in Soum province that left 39 people dead.

SOUNDBITE (Gourmatché) Hamidou Billarga, village chief displaced from Sahel region:
“For us they’re the same people, those who come to steal, those who come to kill. It’s the jihadists.”

Around 90 per cent of internally displaced Burkinabe live with host families. UNHCR provides shelter and basic relief items, as the majority of the displaced have fled empty handed. UNHCR’s chief, Filippo Grandi, visited displaced people in Kaya.

SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I’m shocked by the extent of the humanitarian needs. This is a humanitarian emergency of big proportions. These people basically have nothing.”

The Centre-North province of the country is sheltering the most of displaced. UNHCR and partners have distributed nearly 7,000 shelters here but estimate that 28,000 more are needed right now.

SOUNDBITE (Gourmatché) Hamidou Billarga, village chief displaced from Sahel region:
“Most of my family have made it here but have nothing to eat. We sleep outside, and have to keep some of our belongings outside, too.”

The humanitarian efforts remain hampered by growing security threats to its staff from armed groups — making it impossible to serve everyone who is in need, including thousands of Malian refugees whom Burkina Faso has hosted since 2012.