CAR / FLOODS DISPLACEMENT

Four months after devastating floods that displaced more than 28,000 people in Bangui, many residents of the Central African capital are still affected. MINUSCA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:15
• Production Date: 11 March 2020
• Asset Language: French
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MINUSCA
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS; FLOODS; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• MAMS Id: 2540011
• Parent Id: 2540011
• Alternate Title: unifeed200311b

Description

STORY: CAR / FLOODS DISPLACEMENT
TRT: 2:15
SOURCE: MINUSCA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / SANGO / NATS

DATELINE: 07 MARCH 2020, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC

Shotlist

07 MARCH 2020, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC

1. Various shots, Bangui residents washing laundry in the Oubangui River
2. Various shots, displaced persons
3. Various shots, MINUSCA staff gives items to displaced persons
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Carole Baudoin, head of the Reform and Security Section, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
"It is for us an incredible symbol of solidarity and generosity that the staff of the MINUSCA national staff association made. They decided to assist the victims of the floods at the end of 2019. Today, we said let us try on our side, as international staff, to support these initiatives of the national staff of MINUSCA.”
5. Various shots, displaced persons receiving items from MINUSCA staff
6. SOUNDBITE (Sango) Christophe Kogbako, displaced person:
"We thank MINUSCA for the donation it gives us today. Before, we lived on Gbongoussoua Island. But with the rising waters, our homes are destroyed. Now we live on the site of the displaced. No one is helping us. This gesture that the Minusca has just made appeals to us very much, and we are happy."
7. Wide shot, displaced persons
8. SOUNDBITE (Sango) Marie-Noëlle Gbolet, displaced person:
"After all the problems we've had, these donations are welcome. Today we're going to be able to eat our fill. We say a big thank you."
9. Various shots, Bangui residents washing laundry in the Oubangui River
10. Wide shot, displaced woman receives items from MINUSCA staff

Storyline

Four months after devastating floods that displaced more than 28,000 people in Bangui, many residents of the Central African capital are still affected.

On Saturday (07 Mar) MINUSCA staff went to meet the displaced and assess their situation.

Carole Baudoin, head of the Reform and Security Section at MINUSCA said, "It is for us an incredible symbol of solidarity and generosity that the staff of the MINUSCA national staff association made. They decided to assist the victims of the floods at the end of 2019. Today, we said let us try on our side, as international staff, to support these initiatives of the national staff of MINUSCA.”

MINUSCA personnel distributed clothes, shoes, salt, sardine tins, cassava, soap and a plastic bucket to the displaced

Christophe Kogbako, who is currently displaced, said, "We thank MINUSCA for the donation it gives us today. Before, we lived on Gbongoussoua Island. But with the rising waters, our homes are destroyed. Now we live on the site of the displaced. No one is helping us. This gesture that MINUSCA has just made appeals to us very much, and we are happy.”

Most of these residents lost everything after last October's floods caused by the overflowing of several rivers.

"After all the problems we've had, these donations are welcome. Today we're going to be able to eat our fill. We say a big thank you," explains Marie-Noëlle Gbolet, a displaced person.

MINUSCA staff said they would continue to distribute essential items to displaced people in other areas of Bangui, particularly affected by the floods.