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UNHCR / KENYA SOMALI REFUGEES
STORY: UNHCR / KENYA SOMALI REFUGEES
TRT: 06:22
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 22-24 OCTOBER 2022, DADAAB, KENYA
1. Various shots, aerial views of shelter at Daadab camp
2. Wide shot, new arrived refuges at camp
3. Close up, children looking on
4. Med shot, family seated outside house
5. Close up, Dekow Derow Ali, Somali Asylum seeker and son putting up temporary housing shelter
6. Close up, hand tying twigs together
7. Various shots, Ali digging hole in ground
8. Various shots, Ali placing pole in hole
9. Med shot, Ali securing poles
10.SOUNDBITE (Somali) Dekow Derow Ali, Somali Asylum Seeker:
“For the last three years we have not harvested anything. You just plant but there is nothing to harvest. We did not get any rain. My cows, died on the onset of the drought. I lost some goats as well. I had to sell the remaining goats to pay for transport to get here.”
11. Close up, Dekow’s wife holding baby
12. Close up, Dekow’s wife’s face
13. Close up, Dekow Derow Ali digging
14. Various shots, Khadija Ahmed Osman and neighbours building housing shelter with twigs
15. Med shot, Khadija placing twigs in structure
16. Close up, hand securing twigs
17. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Khadija Ahmed Osman, Somali Asylum Seeker:
“The people we found here welcomed us with open arms, either as relatives or as good Samaritans. For example, this house I am staying in was constructed by my relatives.”
18. Med shot, Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees and colleagues walking through camp
19. Med shot, Grandi entering Khadija’s house
20. Close up, Grandi in meeting with Khadija and her family
21. Various shots, Grandi talking to family
22. Close up, displaced family
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“What you see behind me is a large number of new arrivals. Somalia is going through one of its periodic crises. You have persistent insecurity especially in the area bordering Kenya because of the action of armed group al Shabaab and others. But you also have a devastating drought that I saw by myself in Somalia just a few days ago. And this has prompted more people to come here. We estimate that about 50,000 have already joined the others so swelling again the population of this camp.”
24. Med shot, Grandi meeting family
25. Close up, Grandi talking to Somali asylum-seeker
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“We can involve more in this area in particular, development actors to address some of the longer-term issues not only for the refugees but also for the host communities because let us not forget, Garissa County where we're now here in Dadaab, is next door to Somalia and both are severely affected.”
27. Wide shot, women standing near house
28. Med shot, woman carrying baby
29. Med shot, people standing outside house
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“We need to move at multiple levels the humanitarian level but also the development level in order to give people livelihoods so that they can break the cycle between crises of insecurity, crisis of drought, crisis caused by climate change, and give them a sustainable future.”
Wide shot, women and children waiting to collect water/Truck
31. Med shot, women and Children waiting in line
32. Close up, water tap
33. Close up, water pouring into jerrican
34. Med shot, people waiting to fill up jerricans
35. Close up, baby on mothers back
36. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations:
“This is a difficult year for UNHCR for its partners for the humanitarian community. The war in Ukraine and its widespread impact is causing a shortage of aid, of humanitarian resources in many parts of the world and here as well. Let's not forget we may be facing cuts in assistance where -- and these people behind me are the testimony of that, where we need more humanitarian assistance. People fleeing in Ukraine or people fleeing in Somalia all face hardship and all deserve the same humanitarian attention. Lives are lives wherever they are.”
37. Wide shot, people walking in camp
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi called for a scale-up in support for communities affected by drought in the Horn of Africa region, including the nearly 20,000 Somalis that have crossed the border into Kenya this year fleeing a complex mix of conflict and drought.
Grandi was on a five-day mission to Kenya and Somalia to assess the drought emergency. He visited Kenya’s Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps and Kalobeyei settlement.
He was on the last leg of a tour to Somalia and Kenya this and last week, to highlight the current drought situation in affected countries as well as look at opportunities for solutions.
The region is facing its worst drought in 40 years. Nearly 1 million people are displaced in Somalia, an estimated 20,000 Somali refugees have also arrived in Kenya this year, fleeing a complex mix of conflict and drought.
Dekow Ali lost his crops and animals to the drought and recently crossed the border to Kenya to find water and food for his family.
Grandi also spoke to recent arrivals from Somalia to discuss their immediate needs and appealed for more resources to be able provide much needed humanitarian assistance to them as well as Kenyans impacted by the drought.
Thirty-six-year-ol Khadija Ahmed Osman fled Buale, Somalia with her eight children and arrived in Dadaab on October 14. Back at home she was running a hotel business and says most people in the town also left because of the worsening drought.
Osman says she was worried that her children could easily be recruited by armed groups so crossing the border was the best option.
During his mission, Grandi also held discussions with the governments of Somalia and Kenya, focusing on new arrivals in Kenya and displaced civilians in Somalia.
He expressed gratitude for Kenya’s decades-long hospitality shown towards protracted refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless persons. UNHCR will continue to support the government to provide protection and assistance for refugees, asylum-seekers, and other persons of concern residing in Kenya.
The High Commissioner also held talks with donors and partners on the realization of solutions for refugees and asylum-seekers in Kenya to encourage support for an integrated settlement approach, more investment in development in refugee hosting areas, in order to achieve sustainable solutions for refugees.
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