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UNHCR / SUDAN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
STORY: UNHCR / SUDAN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
TRT: 4:44
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 OCTOBER – 02 NOVEMBER, RENK, UPPER NILE, SOUTH SUDAN
01 NOVEMBER 2023, RENK, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Pan, South Sudanese returnees with makeshift shelters at the Joda border
crossing between Sudan and South SudaN
2. Med shot, returnees and refugees with makeshift shelter scattered around the border area
3. Wide shot, Slow motion shots, crowds of returnees and refugees at the border area
4. Med shot, Slow motion shots, crowed border area
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR, Director, Department of External Relations:
“I'm at the border with Sudan, where the scenes are dramatic. We're seeing over 3,000 people
coming on a daily basis for the past three days. I'm a few kilometers away from our transit center.
The transit center is overwhelmed. It was built for 3, 000 people. It's now host 20,000. The situation is
unbearable. Humanitarians are overwhelmed. We are reaching a point where it is undignified for the
people of Sudan to be in this situation. The South Sudanese government has opened their borders,
have let the people in. We are grateful to them. But now we need the world's support. We need
health, we need shelter, we need food, we need water and sanitation, need protection.”
6. Wide shot, a drive-by shot of the Renk Transit Center
7. Wide shot, Dominique Hyde and colleagues walking through the transit center
8. Med shot, Dominique walks through the center
9. Med shot, Dominique at the transit center
10. Wide shot, a makeshift stove at the center
11. Wide shot, returnees and refugees at a water point fetching water
12, Med shot, people getting water at the taps
13. Med shot, UNHCR colleagues briefing Dominique Hyde
14. Med shot, refugees and returnees at the transit center waiting to be registered
15. Med shot, at the center
16. Wide shot, people waiting to be registered
17. Med shot, woman holding her baby
18. Med shot, children under a tent
19. Med shot, various of Dominique talking to a family at the transit center
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR, Director, Department of External Relations:
“The situation is dire. We're lacking shelter, we are lacking water, we’re lacking food and all of the
U.N., the NGO community, is coming together, but it's simply not sufficient for the needs. We are so
concerned. You're talking about 6 million people that have been displaced, both inside Sudan as well
as in all of the neighboring countries, and that because of a conflict, a conflict that can be stopped.
We need a cease-fire, we need a political solution so that these people can go home safely and go
back to school, go back to their jobs and start their life again. This simply cannot continue.”
31 OCTOBER 2023, RENK HOSPITAL, SOUTH SUDAN
21. Wide shot, Dominique visits the Renk hospital
22. Med shot, returnees on hospital beds
23. Close up, nurse prepping and injection siring
24. Med shot, a nurse working at the hospital
25. Wide shot, Dominique and colleagues walking outside the hospital
Within Sudan, 4.5 million people have been internally displaced since April, when the war began, while 1.2 million have fled to neighbouring countries like Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, Ethiopia and the Central African Republic (CAR). The overwhelming majority of the refugees (in some cases, as in the CAR, nearly 90 percent) are women and children.
Hundreds of thousands of people are struggling to find shelter, with many people sleeping under
trees by the roadside. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is very concerned about them not having access to food, shelter, clean drinking water or other basic essentials.
Last week, senior UNHCR official Dominique Hyde visited Sudan’s White Nile State, where over 433,000 internally displaced persons are estimated to be living.
In addition, before the conflict, White Nile State was hosting nearly 300,000 mostly South Sudanese refugees in 10 refugee camps. The surge in the numbers of displaced people has overwhelmed essential services in the camps.
Like in the rest of Sudan, schools have been shut for the last seven months as displaced people find temporary shelter inside the classrooms. The education and the future prospects of millions of children in Sudan are at risk. And the health situation is disastrous.
More than 1,200 children under five have died in White Nile State between mid-May and mid-September alone, due to a measles outbreak combined with high levels of malnutrition. Four children are still dying every week in White
Nile State, as essential medicines, personnel, and supplies are lacking.
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