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STORY: UN / UNICEF SUDAN
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
04 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations, UNICEF:
“Children have consistently borne the brunt of recurring violence, upheaval and displacement and this is the case again. But I also want to say it is no exaggeration that the situation that they're facing today is unprecedented. However difficult things have been in the past, it's never been this difficult. Before the war erupted on the 15th of April, Sudan was already grappling with a humanitarian crisis. Now more than 110 days of brutal fighting have turned the crisis into a catastrophe, threatening the lives and futures of a generation of children young people who make up over 70 percent of the population.”
4. Med shot, photographer
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations, UNICEF:
“From what's reported, 435 children have been killed in the conflict. At least 2025 children injured. That's an average of one child killed or injured every hour since the war began. And we know that that's an underestimate. The true total is much, much, higher.”
6. Med shot, UNICEF’s Ted Chaiban and OCHA’s Edem Wosornu at the dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director, Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations, UNICEF:
“Everything's been done to reach the population but as fighting continues, it makes access difficult, and we can't overemphasize the fact that much is being done but much more needs to be done. For UNICEF over the next 100 days, we would need urgently $400 million to sustain and scale the crisis response to support the most vulnerable children.”
8. Wide shot, press room dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy Division, OCHA:
“93 humanitarian partners reached at least 2.5 million people with some sort of life-saving assistance across Sudan between April and June. Let's not forget the target is 24 million people. 24 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance of which the target is 18 million. 24 million people is half the population of a country that before 15th of April was doing not too bad. There were needs but we were not targeting people in the capital.”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy Division, OCHA:
“There are accounts from people are saying that certain tribes are targeted more than others. And here I think the focus right now on in this briefing is on how do we get assistance into the different areas Khartoum what Madani put it on to a lesser extent, the quarter funds, and how do we stay and deliver, no matter what.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser
UNICEF’s Ted Chaiban today (4 Aug) said children in Sudan “have consistently borne the brunt of recurring violence, upheaval and displacement,” but stressed that “the situation that they're facing today is unprecedented,” and “however difficult things have been in the past, it's never been this difficult.”
Briefing reporters in New York on the situation of children affected by the conflict in Sudan, Chaiban said, “before the war erupted on the 15th of April, Sudan was already grappling with a humanitarian crisis. Now more than 110 days of brutal fighting have turned the crisis into a catastrophe, threatening the lives and futures of a generation of children young people who make up over 70 percent of the population.”
Chaiban, who is UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations said, “from what's reported, 435 children have been killed in the conflict. At least 2025 children injured. That's an average of one child killed or injured every hour since the war began. And we know that that's an underestimate. The true total is much, much, higher.”
He said, “everything's been done to reach the population but as fighting continues, it makes access difficult, and we can't overemphasize the fact that much is being done but much more needs to be done.”
He noted that for the next 100 days, UNICEF “would need urgently $400 million to sustain and scale the crisis response to support the most vulnerable children.”
Also briefing, OCHA’s Director of Operations and Advocacy Division Edem Wosornu said, “93 humanitarian partners reached at least 2.5 million people with some sort of life-saving assistance across Sudan between April and June. Let's not forget the target is 24 million people. 24 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance of which the target is 18 million. 24 million people is half the population of a country that before 15th of April was doing not too bad. There were needs but we were not targeting people in the capital.”
Asked about ethnically targeted attacks, Wosornu said, “there are accounts from people are saying that certain tribes are targeted more than others. And here I think the focus right now on in this briefing is on how do we get assistance into the different areas Khartoum what Madani put it on to a lesser extent, the quarter funds, and how do we stay and deliver, no matter what.”
Chaiban and Wosornu recently returned from a visit to the country and to the Chad-Sudan border.
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