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UN / ETHIOPIA UPDATE
STORY: UN / ETHIOPIA UPDATE
TRT: 01:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 NOVEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
11 NOVEMBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric walks up to podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Turning to Ethiopia, our humanitarian colleagues say they remain concerned about the ongoing tensions in Tigray region and their impact on civilians. We along with our partners are working with the authorities to ensure the protection of civilians and humanitarian workers, continued access to people in need of assistance, and availability of funding given increasing needs.”
4. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We are told that communications continue to be disrupted. There are also reports of intermittent electricity supply shortages as well as shortages of basic commodities such as flour and fuel are also being reported. Banks remain closed and the shortage of available cash is becoming much more acute. The closure of banks and inaccessibility to the region hamper our humanitarian operations including the traditional humanitarian cash transfers to one million people.”
6. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“UNHCR tells us they are working with authorities in Sudan to help more than 7,000 refugees who fled Ethiopia in the past two days, this obviously following the clashes in Tigray region. UNHCR and local authorities are screening and registering people who are arriving in Sudan. More refugees from Ethiopia are expected to arrive in neighbouring countries. UNHCR colleagues are stepping up their preparations for emergency relief by working with governments and partners.”
8. Wide shot, Dujarric walks way
The spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, today (11 Nov) expressed concern about “the ongoing tensions” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region “and their impact on civilians.”
Dujarric said the United Nations “along with our partners are working with the authorities to ensure the protection of civilians and humanitarian workers, continued access to people in need of assistance, and availability of funding given increasing needs.”
On the ground, Dujarric said, “communications continue to be disrupted” and there are also reports “of intermittent electricity supply shortages as well as shortages of basic commodities such as flour and fuel are also being reported.” Banks he added, “remain closed and the shortage of available cash is becoming much more acute.”
Humanitarian workers in Tigray reported having just one month of fuel supply to run water pumps for 90,000 refugees.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Dujarric said, “are working with authorities in Sudan to help more than 7,000 refugees who fled Ethiopia in the past two days,” and together with local authorities are screening and registering people who are arriving in Sudan.
UNHCR, He said, is “stepping up” preparations for emergency relief as more refugees from Ethiopia are expected to arrive in neighbouring countries.
The UN is urging governments in neighbouring countries to keep their borders open for people forced to flee from their homes.
Dozens have been killed and injured since early this month during attacks in the western Oromia region of the country as well as in Tigray.
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