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SOUTH SUDAN / RENK HUMANITARIAN
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / RENK HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 04:09
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 FEBUARY 2024, RENK/UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, arrival, receipt by peacekeepers from India and humanitarian staff in Renk
2. Various shots, inspecting and meeting with Sudanese refugees in Renk transit camp
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zaiga Ahmed, Refugee:
“We came from Omdurman [Sudan] and travelled through the locality of Umwele and from Umwele we use trucks [lorries] and travelled all the way to west of Diem and from there we reached Rabak, and we settled in a school, we were told to go to the border of Jodda [Sudan and South Sudan] to register with UNHCR and from there we came to Renk.
4. Pan right, refugee women and humanitarian workers seated
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Zaiga Ahmed, Refugee:
“I inserted [hid] my phone into my body, they [armed men] insisted and ordered me to remove it. If not, they can use force to shoot me and take the phone by force. My phone and that one for my sister were taken at gun point, at gun point they took all the valuables including money”.
6. Med shot, refuge women
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Anita Kiki Gbeho, UNMISS Deputy Special Representative And Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, South Sudan:
“We decided to come here and see for ourselves and speak to the people and have [a] better understanding of what they are experiencing. I have to say what gives me hope coming here is how the community has come together with the government, international partners, and donors to ensure that they can respond to the needs of people who have very concrete challenges they are facing”.
8. Med shot, DSRSG talking to a refugee woman.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Anita Kiki Gbeho, UNMISS Deputy Special Representative And Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, South Sudan:
“But I have to say what really troubles me as I hear from colleagues is that over a 1,600 [people] are coming in everyday and we are not able to decongest these camps, so currently there are some 9000 people who are in a space that was meant for 2000; this is unsustainable, we need to find solutions.:
10. Various shots, returnees, refugees
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Anita Kiki Gbeho, UNMISS Deputy Special Representative And Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, South Sudan:
“This is not enough [funds] but I do recognize that they have made each dollar stretch 10 times as far as it supposed to go but there is still more to be done.”
12. Wide shot, Renk County sign
In South Sudan, Renk is the main entry point for returnees and refugees escaping the crisis in Sudan. Zaigra Ahmed, a mother of four children, recounted her harrowing escape from conflict to the newly appointed UNMISS Deputy Special Representative-Humanitarian and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Anita Kiki Gbeho.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zaiga Ahmed, Refugee:
“We came from Omdurman [Sudan] and travelled through the locality of Umwele and from Umwele we use trucks [lorries] and travelled all the way to west of Diem and from there we reached Rabak, and we settled in a school, we were told to go to the border of Jodda [Sudan and South Sudan] to register with UNHCR and from there we came to Renk.
Zaiga and others like her were robbed of their valuables and traumatized by armed groups.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zaiga Ahmed, Refugee:
“I inserted [hid] my phone into my body, they [armed men] insisted and ordered me to remove it. If not, they can use force to shoot me and take the phone by force. My phone and that one for my sister were taken at gun point, at gun point they took all the valuables including money.”
The UNMISS Deputy Head listened carefully to Zaiga, visibly moved by her story. She also spoke to humanitarian workers on the ground, local authorities and toured these transit locations.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anita Kiki Gbeho, UNMISS Deputy Special Representative And Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, South Sudan:
“We decided to come here and see for ourselves and speak to the people and have [a] better understanding of what they are experiencing. I have to say what gives me hope coming here is how the community has come together with the government, international partners, and donors to ensure that they can respond to the needs of people who have very concrete challenges they are facing.”
The newly appointed Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan listened patiently to these disturbing tales from returnees and refugees, mostly women, about their desperate quest for safety which has led them to overcrowded transit centers.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anita Kiki Gbeho, UNMISS Deputy Special Representative And Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, South Sudan:
“But I have to say what really troubles me as I hear from colleagues is that over a 1,600 [people] are coming in everyday and we are not able to decongest these camps, so currently there are some 9000 people who are in a space that was meant for 2000; this is unsustainable, we need to find solutions."
People need assistance and protection at a time when competing crises have led to reduced donor funding for the world’s newest nation.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anita Kiki Gbeho, UNMISS Deputy Special Representative And Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, South Sudan:
“This is not enough [funds] but I do recognize that they have made each dollar stretch 10 times as far as it supposed to go but there is still more to be done.”
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