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CAMEROON / CENTRAL AFRICAN DISPLACED
STORY: CAMEROON / CENTRAL AFRICAN DISPLACED
TRT: 1:13
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 JANUARY 2021, GAROUA BOULAI / GADO CAMP, CAMEROON
13 JANUARY 2021, GAROUA BOULAI / GADO CAMP, CAMEROON
1. Med shot, refuge women and children waiting
2. Wide shot, more families waiting for registration
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Josephine Ioumarou, refugee, Central African Republic:
(starts under cutaway) “A while ago we learned that rebels were 30 km away from Bouar. They came to invade Bouar, to attack, to strike with big weapons.”
4. Pan right, people waiting to be registered by UNHCR
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Ihindou Melina, refugee, Central African Republic:
“Really we had a hard blow with the arrival of these rebels. So, we fled with my husband, believing that perhaps we could also have peace.”
6. Med shot, people being registered
7. Med shot, little girl being fingerprinted
8. Med shot, staff registering refugees
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Josephine Ioumarou, refugee, Central African Republic:
“To sleep, to look for something to eat is difficult, and we are there, we are there. We do not know.”
10. Aerial shots, Gado Camp shelter building
11. Close up, young refugee
12. Med shot, family being registered
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Josephine Ioumarou, refugee, Central African Republic:
“For the moment, we are in Cameroon because, at home, things are not going well. We can't go into insecurity.”
14. Med shot, family meeting with UNHCR staff
15. Close up, refugee mother and child
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said nearly 5,000, Central Africans have recently crossed into Cameroon fleeing rebel presence in their villages as well as fear of a rebel advance towards Bangui.
In the Central African Republic (CAR), security conditions have progressively deteriorated throughout the country, including in Bangui. There are indications of imminent attacks by the armed groups in most parts of CAR. Although CAR’s borders with Cameroon and Chad are closed, UNHCR continues to urge these governments to facilitate access to asylum seekers. In the western town of Bouar, the situation is calmer, but rumours are circulating that armed group elements are planning to attack the he UN peacekeeping (MINUSCA) base and the Central African armed Forces camp in the event that the Constitutional Court confirms the election of the President Touadéra.
SOUNDBITE (French) Josephine Ioumarou, refugee, Central African Republic :
(starts under cutaway) “A while ago we learned that rebels were 30 km away from Bouar. They came to invade Bouar, to attack, to strike with big weapons.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Ihindou Melina, refugee, Central African Republic :
“Really we had a hard blow with the arrival of these rebels. So we fled with my husband, believing that perhaps we could also have peace.”
UNHCR is registering the new arrivals in Garoua Boulai, but the future for these refugees is uncertain.
SOUNDBITE (French) Josephine Ioumarou, refugee, Central African Republic:
“To sleep, to look for something to eat is difficult, and we are there, we are there. We do not know.”
UNHCR is building 300 emergency shelters for new families in nearby Gado camp, which is already home to 26,000 refugees.
SOUNDBITE (French) Josephine Ioumarou, refugee, Central African Republic :
“For the moment, we are in Cameroon because, at home, things are not going well. We can't go into insecurity.”
Since December, 60,000 Central Africans have fled to neighbouring countries in search of safety.
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