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DATELINE: 07 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
07 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Secretary-General António Guterres at the Council dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The conflict has taken a devastating toll on the people of Sudan, imperilling the unity of the country. There is now a serious risk that the conflict could ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions, from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.”
5. Med shot, Guterres at the dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We are deeply alarmed by calls for arming civilians, and popular mobilization activities in various states. Armed groups are entering the fray – in Darfur and South Kordofan. All these dangerous developments are pouring fuel on the fire for an even more serious fragmentation of the country, a deepening of intra- and inter-communal tensions, and more ethnic violence. It is time to silence the guns and raise the volume for peace.”
7. Wide shot, Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is reaching colossal proportions. Fully half the population – some 25 million people – need life-saving assistance. Over 14,000 people have been killed, although that number is likely far higher. Sudan is now home to the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, with 6.3 million people seeking safety within the country since the beginning of the conflict. And another 1.7 million people have fled to neighbouring countries.”
9. Wide shot, Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Some 18 million people are acutely food insecure. This is the highest number ever recorded during a harvest season, yet numbers are expected to surge even higher in the coming months. We are already receiving reports of children dying from malnutrition. The United Nations and our humanitarian partners are doing everything we can to stem this suffering. But we are facing major challenges as we try to reach millions of people in need.”
11. Wide shot, Council
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sudan:
“Sudan is dealing with war which is supported by a number of states by fighters and mercenaries who have been brought from various continents, including some neighbouring states. This is exerting highly unusual pressure on the Sudanese national security to review our crossing points with Chad and Darfur possibility of finding an alternative and opening other crossings and roads, in addition to Port Sudan and South Sudan.”
13. Wide shot, end of Council session
Secretary-General António Guterres today (7 Mar) told the Security Council that the conflict in Sudan “has taken a devastating toll on the people of Sudan, imperilling the unity of the country” and there is now “a serious risk that the conflict could ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions, from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.”
Guterres said, “we are deeply alarmed by calls for arming civilians, and popular mobilization activities in various states. Armed groups are entering the fray – in Darfur and South Kordofan. All these dangerous developments are pouring fuel on the fire for an even more serious fragmentation of the country, a deepening of intra- and inter-communal tensions, and more ethnic violence.”
He said, “it is time to silence the guns and raise the volume for peace.”
The Secretary-General said the humanitarian crisis in Sudan “is reaching colossal proportions” as “fully half the population – some 25 million people – need life-saving assistance.”
He told the Council that over 14,000 people have been killed, voting that “that number is likely far higher.”
Guterres said, “Sudan is now home to the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, with 6.3 million people seeking safety within the country since the beginning of the conflict. And another 1.7 million people have fled to neighbouring countries.”
Some 18 million people, he said, are acutely food insecure, “the highest number ever recorded during a harvest season, yet numbers are expected to surge even higher in the coming months.”
The United Nations and humanitarian partners, he said, “are doing everything we can to stem this suffering. But we are facing major challenges as we try to reach millions of people in need.”
Sudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed told the Council that “Sudan is dealing with war which is supported by a number of states by fighters and mercenaries who have been brought from various continents, including some neighbouring states.”
He said this was “exerting highly unusual pressure on the Sudanese national security to review our crossing points with Chad and Darfur possibility of finding an alternative and opening other crossings and roads, in addition to Port Sudan and South Sudan.”
The war between rival militaries Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), now in its eleventh month, has not only claimed thousands of lives but has created a massive internal displacement crisis.
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