OCHA / BURKINA FASO

On Tuesday, the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA), together with Denmark, Germany and the European Union, will host a ministerial conference on the sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Central Sahel, which covers Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. OCHA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:06:16
• Production Date: 19 October 2020
• Asset Language: French
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: BURKINA FASO
• MAMS Id: 2573173
• Parent Id: 2573173
• Alternate Title: unifeed201019a

Description

STORY: OCHA / BURKINA FASO
TRT: 5:46
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNOCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: MOSSI / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: OCTOBER 2020, WATTINOMA HOSTING SITE / BISNOGO, BURKINA FASO

Shotlist

1. Various shots of Sawadogo Ramata, internally displaced from the village of Guedgem.
2. SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Sawadogo Ramata, Displaced Person:
“We were fine. Then at the start of the crops season, we saw them come around our town to kill 22 people. Three days later, they came back to kill four people. We eventually fled here.”
3. Various shots, internally displaced women
4. SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Sawadogo Ramata, Displaced Person:
“No, there is no work to do to take care of my family. I often bake cakes and other snacks for them to eat. We came without cooking pots, without dishes, without any utensils, without clothes, without mats.”
5. Various shots, aerial views, hosting site
6. Wide shot, displaced people at the site
7. SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Aminata Ouedraogo, Displaced Person:
“If peace returns, then we will go back.”
8. Various shots, Aminata Ouedraogo
9. SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Aminata Ouedraogo, Displaced Person:
“We have no money to pay for water and firewood.
10. Close up, Aminata Ouedraogo
11. SOUNDBITE (Mossi) Aminata Ouedraogo, Displaced Person:
“What I’d like to add i s asking for support because we are in dire straits. When you have 5 or 6 children and you have nothing to give them, that is misery. The children cry out of hunger and thirst. If you don't have any, what can you do? And there is no work to remedy to this.”
12. Various shots, hosting site

OCTOBER 2020, BISNOGO, BURKINA FASO

13. Aerial shots, students at school site built with the help of UNICEF
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Tibnongodo Sawadogo, Kouim-Kouli School Principal:
“At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year we had 444 students. At this moment, that is to say in a span of 30 days, we have 1,258 students. How can this be explained? It was because of the repeated attacks that happened, and which caused massive movement of the population towards the city.”
15. Various shots, outdoor classes
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Tibnongodo Sawadogo, Kouim-Kouli School Principal:
“We therefore asked for help everywhere. There is UNICEF, who came to set up tents. There is Plan, who built us two semi-finished buildings there is NRC which is in the process of completing these two buildings.”
17. Various shots, school activities
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Aminata Pitroipa - OCHA Burkina Faso:
“We can say that the north reception centre hosts over 400,000 internally displaced people a mong the 1 million internally displaced people in the country.”
19. Various shots, Aminata Pitroipa in class with students
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Aminata Pitroipa - OCHA Burkina Faso:
“You could say that their presence creates an enormous pressure on resources which were already insufficient.”
21. Various shots, Aminata Pitroipa interacting with affected communities
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Aminata Pitroipa - OCHA Burkina Faso:
“Today we are facing enormous needs, especially at the level of water, hygiene and sanitation. And then, as far as education, we are confronting some protection risks for children, who risk being recruited by armed groups. There are also enormous needs as far as shelter and essential household items.”
22. Various shots, OCHA and ACTED humanitarian personnel interacting with affected communities

Storyline

On Tuesday (20 Oct) the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA), together with Denmark, Germany and the European Union, will host a ministerial conference on the sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Central Sahel, which covers Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

People living in the border region between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are now at an epicentre of conflict, poverty and climate change.

More than 13 million people need humanitarian assistance. The number of people facing acute hunger has tripled over the past year to reach 7.4 million. 1.5 million people are internally displaced, a twentyfold increase over two years. And lockdowns and other COVID-19 prevention measures have pushed an additional 6 million people into extreme poverty.

In all this, women and girls are especially vulnerable, and gender-based violence going up.

The conference aims to instill a more acute sense of urgency among policymakers about the situation in the Central Sahel, to raise money for humanitarian action – our response plans in the three countries are only about 40 per cent funded – and to encourage Sahelian and donor countries to offer specific, longer-term policy commitments to build resilience and stave off future humanitarian needs.