UN / SUDAN HUMANITARIAN UPDATE

A United Nations spokesperson told reporters that over the past four weeks, the UN “has facilitated the movement of 438 trucks carrying some 17,000 tons of aid to different parts of Sudan.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:30
• Production Date: 21 June 2023
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: FARHAN HAQ
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS INTEGRATED TRANSITION ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNITAMS
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 3061631
• Parent Id: 3061631
• Alternate Title: unifeed230621h

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STORY: UN / SUDAN HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
TRT: 01:30
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 JUNE 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

RECENT - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters

21 JUNE 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, spokesperson Farhan Haq at to podium
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Over the past four weeks, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has facilitated the movement of 438 trucks carrying some 17,000 tons of aid to different parts of Sudan. Fifty of those trucks moved during the first two days of the latest ceasefire. We will continue to deliver, ceasefire or not. But we also continue to call for an end to the fighting so that we can reach all people in need in Sudan, wherever they are. Meanwhile, the United Nations is alarmed by the impact that attacks on health care are having on women and girls in the country. The World Health Organization and the UN Population Fund say that more than two-thirds of hospitals are closed in areas impacted by the fighting. Several maternity hospitals are also out of action. Of the more than two-and-a-half million women and girls of reproductive age in Sudan, nearly 263,000 are estimated to be pregnant. One third of them will give birth in the next three months. And all of them need access to critical reproductive health services. As the fighting continues in Sudan, the number of people internally displaced by the violence has risen to nearly 2 million, according to the International Organization for Migration. The highest proportion of internally displaced persons have been observed in West Darfur, River Nile, White Nile and Northern states.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. Wide shot, end of briefing

Storyline

A United Nations spokesperson today (21 Jun) told reporters that over the past four weeks, the UN “has facilitated the movement of 438 trucks carrying some 17,000 tons of aid to different parts of Sudan.”

Fifty of those trucks, Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said, “moved during the first two days of the latest ceasefire.” Haq stressed that the UN “will continue to deliver, ceasefire or not”, but also continues to call for an end to the fighting “so that we can reach all people in need in Sudan, wherever they are.’

He said the UN “is alarmed by the impact that attacks on health care are having on women and girls in the country.”

Two-thirds of hospitals are closed in areas impacted by the fighting, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), while several maternity hospitals are also out of action.

“Of the more than two-and-a-half million women and girls of reproductive age in Sudan,” Haq continued, “nearly 263,000 are estimated to be pregnant” and “one third of them will give birth in the next three months.”

All of them, he stressed, “need access to critical reproductive health services.”

The number of people internally displaced by the violence has risen to nearly 2 million, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The highest proportion of internally displaced persons have been observed in West Darfur, River Nile, White Nile and Northern states.