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IOM / SUDAN DISPLACED
STORY: IOM / SUDAN DISPLACED
TRT: 3:45
SOURCE: IOM
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT IOM ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 FEBRUARY 2024, JODA, SOUT SUDAN
1. Wide shot, displaced people at the border (Joda)
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Yvonne Ndege, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM)in East Africa:
“Well, the conditions here are extremely harsh. There's hardly any water, any food, any sanitation, any security, any shelter. It's also one of the most remote areas in the country. Thousands of people have crossed the border just behind me from Sudan. Many of them are vulnerable. Many of them are traumatized. We spoken to women. We spoken to children and the elderly who fled the terrible violence and have spent weeks, in some cases, months, trying to reach this border, trying to cross into South Sudan to reach safety.”
3. Wide shot, newly arrived at the border (Joda) speaking to IMO personnel
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Yvonne Ndege, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM)in East Africa:
“Hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border from Sudan, here into South Sudan and have been assisted by IOM, the International Organization for migration, to Onward Transport Assistance. Now, this assistance is absolutely critical because what IOM and other UN agencies don't want is for refugee camps to spring up in this location because it is so remote. There is no infrastructure. There are no hospitals, there are no medical facilities. There are no resources of any kind for those vulnerable arrivals. To tap into this onward transport assistance is absolutely critical to avoiding the situation I'm describing, and it has involved IOM putting on over 1,200 flights away from Renk into Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile State. It's also involved sea transportation, hundreds of thousands of people, as I said, are arriving. Over 100,000 have been helped to take boats away from Renk to Malakal, which is a three day journey overnight on the River Nile.”
5. Wide shot, newly arrived at the border (Joda) getting medical checks
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yvonne Ndege, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM)in East Africa:
“The conditions that they describe, what they witnessed, is completely horrific. Some say they fled violence. Some say they fled bullets. Some say they experienced sexual violence along the journey. Some say they spent many, many days in the bush trying to reach this border. We spoke to one family, a mother with her two daughters and her own mother, who traveled all the way from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to reach this border and cross into safety. She was very traumatized, very upset. But thank God that she had escaped with her life, as she put it.”
7. Wide shot, displaced people on a truck
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yvonne Ndege, spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM)in East Africa:
“There are massive concerns about the risk of disease, of hunger and further violence. This is one of the most remote places on Earth. There's hardly any infrastructure in this area. There's no mobile or internet, network of any kind in this area. There is no food supply in this area. There is no water in this area. So the risks and the concerns about diseases spreading are real. IOM, the International Organization for migration, has. Has been receiving people just at this border providing vaccinations to people. Medical checks to those arriving before they are transported into the main town of rank for further assistance and care from IOM staff.”
9. Wide shot, displaced people at the border
Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the war in Sudan are being assisted in South Sudan, by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Over half a million people (560,241) have crossed the border into Renk in South Sudan, and are being assisted by IOM through Onward Transport Assistance.
Most of those arriving are originally South Sudanese people who had been living in Sudan when the violence started.
IOM has assisted over 161,000 to return to their villages and communities of origin, or reach other places of safety.
The Onward Transport Assistance being provided is one of the largest and most complex transport operations in IOM’s history.
Over 135,000 arrivals have been assisted with boat transport. More than 1200 flights have been organized, and over 26,000 people have been moved by road. But an estimated 420,000 people are expected to arrive in South Sudan, from Sudan this year.
$32M USD will be needed to provide Onward Transport Assistance for 150,000. But a major cash crunch is looming says IOM, which will affect this critical and much needed assistance for those arriving.
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