SUDAN / ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said more than 25,000 children, women and men have fled Ethiopia into Sudan in search of safety, overwhelming the current capacity to provide aid. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:28
• Production Date: 17 November 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: ETHIOPIA
• MAMS Id: 2583213
• Parent Id: 2583213
• Alternate Title: unifeed201117a

Description

STORY: SUDAN / ETHIOPIAN REFUGEES
TRT: 2:28
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 13 NOVEMBER 2020, HAMDAYET, SUDAN

Shotlist

13 NOVEMBER 2020, HAMDAYET, SUDAN

1. Med shot, man helps children off a boat at border point River Sittet
2. Wide shot, refugees getting off boat
3. Wide shot, Ethiopian refugees carrying belongings walk up a hill
4. Wide shot, border point - refugees crossing from Ethiopia
5. Close up, refugees carrying belongings
6. Close up, man carrying sleeping child on shoulders
7. Med shot, shot elderly woman carrying child on back as they walk up the hill
8. Wide shot, refugee with injury gets help to disembark from boat
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic/ Tigrinya) Azeeb, Ethiopian refugee:
“We worked for so many years, we left everything and fled. We came with the clothes on our backs.”
10. UPSOUND (Arabic) interviewer:
“Where is your husband?”
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic/ Tigrinya) Azeeb, Ethiopian refugee:
“I don’t know where my husband is, I have been looking for him for five days, I don’t know where he is.”
13. UPSOUND (Arabic) interviewer:
“What happened?”
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic/ Tigrinya) Gannite, Ethiopian refugee:
“I don’t know, but there was heavy fighting and many people died. After that they told us to leave so we fled, everyone did.”
15. Wide shot, Wide shot refugees streaming into Sudan on hillside
16. Wide shot, refugee boarding boat on other side of River Sittet crossing border
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Hesemann, Assistant Representative, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The situation is very bad. There are about 15,000 here right now, who fled and have basically arrived in the last five days. We have started to provide assistance services – UNHCR, WFP, The Sudanese Red Cross, Muslim Aid and other service providers. And you can see the start of some assistance provision but much more needs to be done.”
18. Wide shot, man carrying luggage walking
19. Wide shot, refugees at river bank
20. Close up, elderly refugee and young child
21. Wide shot, refugees out in the open
22. Med shot, refugee struggling to climb a hill
23. Wide shot, refugees under makeshift tent
23. Wide shot, refugees sitting at riverbank
24. Med shot, young child sleeping

Storyline

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said more than 25,000 children, women and men have fled Ethiopia into Sudan in search of safety, overwhelming the current capacity to provide aid.

UNHCR said the worsening crisis in northern Ethiopia due to ongoing clashes between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray regional forces is driving thousands of people to flee, more than half of them children.

The Agency said the numbers are increasing rapidly, with the majority having crossed into the Hamdayet border point in Kassala State. People are arriving with very few belongings indicating they fled in a hurry. UNHCR and its partners are ramping up assistance, but the numbers of new arrivals are far outpacing the capacity on the ground. UNHCR said the transit centre at Hamdayet border crossing has a capacity to accommodate 300 refugees, but is already overwhelmed with over 6,000 people. Sanitation facilities are insufficient, impacting hygiene.