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STORY: OCHA / SUDAN DISPLACEMENT
TRT: 11:00
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 5-6 NOVEMBER 2024, GEDAREF, NAHR ATBARA, SUDAN
05 NOVEMBER 2024, EL SALAMABI SITE, GEDAREF, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, pan right, IDPs carrying tents
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Sayed, age 70, displaced:
“I am disabled and was carried by my children. We were forced to move because of the violations we experienced. We moved from Al Sharafa Sherif Barakat, fleeing destruction, looting in the area, and the rapes. In Al Sharafa Barakat, the situation was very bad. I was carried on my children’s shoulders for 40 hours - around 25 to 30 km, on this wheelchair.”
3. Medium shot, site managers moving tents
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Sayed, age 70, displaced
“The people you see all around came on foot. Some walked for three days, others for a week, and others for ten days. Some died on the streets from thirst, suffering, and tiredness.”
5. Various shots, life in El Salamabi site
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Sayed, age 70, displaced
“And there are children around you suffering from a shortage of fluids, among other things.
No one is drinking tea twice a day, and some may not drink tea at all. This is the least they could drink,
with a bit of sugar in it, yet it is completely unavailable.”
7. Various shots, life in El Salamabi site
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nidal, age 35, displaced:
“People are tired and need an urgent support, not just from this area, but we need help from outside [the country] too. We need beds because all these people have none; there are sick people and small children lying on the floor. We also need clothes and blankets. We need other organizations to support these people and to send supplies from abroad, such as clothes, beds, blankets, and tents like these.”
9. Medium shot, men praying
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nidal, age 35, displaced:
“Every house in the east side in Aj Jazirah got attacked, they took the poor people clothes, those people are left with nothing. Any house they entered, they looted. They took clothes from wardrobes and wore them. They even looted sweets that women were selling to feed their children; they took it, ate it, and left the women unable to feed their children.”
11. Medium shot, men and children standing at a water distribution point
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mawya, age 62, displaced:
“We face so many problems, especially hunger and thirst. The children were most affected by both, and the women became very sick due to hunger and thirst. We have lost so many people. Many remain missing, and we have been unable to find them until now.”
06 NOVEMBER 2024, VILLAGE 6 SITE, NARH ATBARA LOCALITY, KASALA, SUDAN
13. Various shots, OCHA staff at mobile clinic
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Edmore Tondhlana, Deputy Head of Office, OCHA Sudan:
“And what I have seen so far is, a good number of people, in fact, thousands of people that have been displaced, from Aj Jazirah Jazeera and have come into [from Gedaref] that have, have come into-Kassala, which, as I said, which are in the east and, they are quite in some deplorable and vulnerable states and, really, demonstrate to assure that they need assistance. And even as I was here, I was able to see plenty of other vehicles, trucks, busses, transporting many more IDPs and coming, all the time coming out of, coming from the direction of Al Jazeera, in the direction where they, they hope to find, peace and stability.”
15. Various shots, OCHA assessing humanitarian response
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Edmore Tondhlana, Deputy Head of Office, OCHA Sudan:
“Let Sudan people go back to their normal ways of living, let people get back to their jobs. Let us rebuild the country again. There's many children whose education is now affected, and it's a generation that we are missing. There is so many facets of life that have been affected. We need to get back to normalcy.”
17. Various shots, on-site humanitarian activities
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Lokuju Peter, Head of Kasala Suboffice, OCHA Sudan:
“Over the past year, we have seen three waves of displacement of IDPs, women from Aj Jazirah and Sennar state, increasing the number of people, I think, threefold, in eastern Sudan alone. And to humanitarian agencies here and also the state government authorities, there's been an urgent need to help these people who [have] moved from other state to eastern Sudan, with shelter, with water, with health.”
19. Various shots, life at Narh Atbara site
The armed violence and attacks in Aj Jazirah State underscore the brutality of 19 months of conflict in Sudan, with reports of rape, mass killings and widespread looting.
In less than one month, the hostilities in Aj Jazirah drove more than 340,000 from their homes, the vast majority of which fled to neighbouring Gedaref and Kassala states.
OCHA Sudan visited sites there that are hosting people newly displaced, as humanitarians work to provide them with critical assistance.
Since the start of the conflict in Sudan in April 2023, some 11.5 million people have been displaced inside the country or across its borders.
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