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GENEVA / MOZAMBIQUE HUNGER ALERT
STORY: GENEVA / MOZAMBIQUE HUNGER ALERT
TRT: 1:48
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 NOVEMBER 2022 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
RECENT - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
11 NOVEMBER 2022 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Med shot, press room with panel of speakers
3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Antonella d’Aprile, Regional Communications Officer for Southern Africa, World Food Programme (WFP):
“WFP is delivering food assistance to one million people affected by the conflict in northern Mozambique, but unfortunately, we have a very serious funding shortage.”
4. Med-wide shot, press room with journalists, TV screen showing WFP speaker
5. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Antonella d’Aprile, Regional Communications Officer for Southern Africa, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The attacks started five years ago in Cabo Delgado, which is the most food-insecure, malnourished, and extremely poor province in Mozambique.”
6. Med shot, press room showing host, journalists, TV cameras to rear
7. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Antonella d’Aprile, Regional Communications Officer for Southern Africa, World Food Programme (WFP):
“WFP will be forced to suspend life-saving assistance to one million people by February if we don’t receive funds now as I speak.”
8. Med shot, journalists typing on laptops
9. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Antonella d’Aprile, Regional Communications Officer for Southern Africa, World Food Programme (WFP):
“February in Mozambique is also the peak of the lean season. This means that food is more expensive because farmers are waiting for their harvest.”
10. Med shot, press conference participants
11. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Antonella d’Aprile, Regional Communications Officer for Southern Africa, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Unfortunately, February is also our agitated cyclone season, so without WFP food assistance, one million vulnerable uprooted people will be on the verge of hunger in Mozambique.”
12. Med shot, journalists checking mobile phones, WFP speaker shown on TV screen to rear
13. Med shot, TV camera operators filming
14. Close up, journalists’ hands, laptops.
One million desperately vulnerable people in northern Mozambique could see their life-saving support cut unless funding can be found to help them, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday (11 Nov).
“WFP is delivering food assistance to one million people affected by the conflict in northern Mozambique, but unfortunately, we have a very serious funding shortage,” said WFP Regional Communications Officer for Southern Africa, Antonella d’Aprile.
She said, “WFP will be forced to suspend life-saving assistance to one million people by February if we don’t receive funds now.”
The warning comes amid intensifying extremist violence in Cabo Delgado, which is the most food-insecure province of the south African nation, where 1.15 million people already face “crisis” or “emergency” hunger levels.
“The attacks started five years ago in Cabo Delgado, which is the most food-insecure, malnourished, and extremely poor province in Mozambique,” D’Aprile explained about the “unprecedented” targeting of districts close to the provincial capital, Pemba, and in neighbouring Nampula province.
“People are leaving their villages, leaving absolutely everything behind,” the WFP officer continued, adding that the number of displaced people in the north has quadrupled to nearly one million people in the last two years.
Humanitarians are also worried that the funding shortage will likely coincide with the peak of the lean season.
“This means that food is more expensive because farmers are waiting for their harvest,” according to WFP’s D’Aprile, who also noted that February tends to be when Mozambique is ravaged by devastating cyclones.
“Without WFP food assistance, one million vulnerable, uprooted people will be on the verge of hunger in Mozambique,” she stressed.
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