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UN / DRC DISPLACED
STORY: UN / DRC DISPLACED
TRT: 02:36
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
15 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Turning to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, our humanitarian colleagues are telling us that a string of attacks on civilians in North Kivu have displaced more than 100,000 people and claimed dozens of lives in the last week.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“According to information given to us by our humanitarian partners, more than 50,000 people displaced from Rutshuru found safety in Kibirizi, while some 55,000 people from Masisi fled to neighbouring villages as well as to Goma and towards Minova in South Kivu. Our peacekeeping colleagues in the country report that they sheltered 95 children at their base in Sake, that’s including 50 children from an orphanage. This happened following weekend clashes in this area between the Congolese defence forces and the M23 armed group.”
6. Close-up, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Four civilians died during the clashes and at least five others were injured. Peacekeepers provided medical assistance to the injured at their base and later evacuated them to Goma. The children were also transferred to a centre for children in Goma. The Mission also reported that since early March, the ADF rebel group have reportedly killed at least 97 civilians in the Beni territory, in North Kivu Province. As we mentioned last week, due to ongoing joint operations between the Ugandan and Congolese defence forces, UN peacekeepers do not have access to the area south of Beni, where the suspected ADF members perpetrated these attacks.”
8. Close-up, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We along with our humanitarian partners are providing health support, education, food, water and sanitation among other much-needed services to thousands of people in the Beni and surrounding areas. We are also working on scaling up our response. In the North Kivu, over the past year, the education of more than 600,000 children has been impacted by the ongoing violence. As a reminder, over the past year, renewed violence in the region has caused the displacement of more than 800, 000 men, women and children. Currently in the DRC, more than 6 million people are internally displaced.”
10. Wide shot, briefing room
Briefing reporters on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a UN spokesperson said, “A string of attacks on civilians in North Kivu have displaced more than 100,000 people and claimed dozens of lives in the last week.”
Speaking on Wednesday (15 Mar) in New York, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “According to information given to us by our humanitarian partners, more than 50,000 people displaced from Rutshuru found safety in Kibirizi, while some 55,000 people from Masisi fled to neighbouring villages as well as to Goma and towards Minova in South Kivu.”
He added, “Our peacekeeping colleagues in the country report that they sheltered 95 children at their base in Sake, that’s including 50 children from an orphanage. This happened following weekend clashes in this area between the Congolese defence forces and the M23 armed group.”
Dujarric also said that four civilians died during the clashes and at least five others were injured.
The spokesperson said, “Peacekeepers provided medical assistance to the injured at their base and later evacuated them to Goma. The children were also transferred to a centre for children in Goma.”
According to him, the Mission also reported that since early March, the ADF rebel group have reportedly killed at least 97 civilians in the Beni territory, in North Kivu Province.
He also reminded, “As we mentioned last week, due to ongoing joint operations between the Ugandan and Congolese defence forces, UN peacekeepers do not have access to the area south of Beni, where the suspected ADF members perpetrated these attacks.”
Dujarric also said, “We along with our humanitarian partners are providing health support, education, food, water and sanitation among other much-needed services to thousands of people in the Beni and surrounding areas.”
He added, “We are also working on scaling up our response. In the North Kivu, over the past year, the education of more than 600,000 children has been impacted by the ongoing violence. As a reminder, over the past year, renewed violence in the region has caused the displacement of more than 800, 000 men, women and children.”
“Currently in the DRC, more than 6 million people are internally displaced,” the UN spokesperson concluded.
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