BURKINA FASO / RAJASINGHAM REFUGEES

During a visit to Burkina Faso, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham met with several communities affected and displaced by the violence in Djibo and Kaya. OCHA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:04:24
• Production Date: 11 February 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: BURKINA FASO
• MAMS Id: 2601756
• Parent Id: 2601756
• Alternate Title: unieed210211c

Description

STORY: BURKINA FASO / RAJASINGHAM REFUGEES
TRT: 4:24
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 10 FEBRUARY 2021, KAYA, BURKINA FASO

Shotlist

1 Med shot, Ramesh Rajasingham exchanging with IDP
2. Close up, Ramesh Rajasingham exchanging with IDP
3. Wide shot, IDP
4. Close up, IDP
5. Wide shot, Metsi Makhetha, UN Resident Coordinator and Rajasingham exchanging with children in a learning space
6. Med shot, Makhetha and Rajasingham exchanging with children in a learning space
7. Med shot, Makhetha exchanging with children in a learning space
8. Med shot, children in a learning space
9. Close up, children in a learning space
10. Med shot, children in a learning space
11. Close up, Makhetha exchanging children in a learning space
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramesh Rajasingham, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We’ve had over a million people displaced in as little as twelve months very recently, so Burkina Faso is a relatively new cris that’s been visited upon by the same issues, concerns and violences and extremism that we’ve already seen in other parts of the Sahel such as Mali and Niger. as a result, people are feeling their livelihoods, they’re leaving theirs homes theirs livestock, they’re fleeing with whatever is in their back into congregated sections of Burkina faso , like Kaye, this town of kaya, which is generously hosting thousands of IDP.”
13. Wide shot, 38 villas’s IDP site in Kaya
14. Med shot, children
15. Wide shot, IDP sitting by their shelter
16. Various shots, children in camp
17. Various shots, children getting water
18. Med shot, Mouniratou Maiga
19. Close up, Mouniratou Maiga
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Mouniratou Maiga, internally displaced:
“One day, they came with guns, they killed four men and then, they came back again, they didn’t find men so they hit women, that’s what I saw. That’s why we came here.”
21. Med shot, Sayouba Sawadogo
22. Close up, Sayouba Sawadogo
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Sayouba Sawadogo, internally displaced:
“I came on foot to Kaya. I stayed three days in the bush then I came on foot. When I arrived I slept outside because I didn’t have anything, no money to rent a house, no one to help me. I am here with my wife, we settled under a tree.”

9 FEBRUARY 2021, DJIBO, BURKINA FASO

24. Various shots, Ramesh Rajasingham meeting with refugees
25. Wide shot, Metsi Makhetha and Ramesh Rajasingham, boarding helicopter
26. Aerial shot, Djibo

Storyline

During a visit to Burkina Faso, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham met with several communities affected and displaced by the violence in Djibo and Kaya.

A large-scale humanitarian emergency is unfolding in Burkina Faso where rising insecurity and conflict over the past two years have provoked the world's fastest-growing displacement crisis with more than a million people driven from their homes.

Humanitarian needs have increased sharply, and a record 3.5 million people will need humanitarian assistance in 2021. The humanitarian problems in Burkina Faso have been further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.