SOMALIA / CONFLICT

The impact of the conflict in Somalia is having a devastating affect on the civilian population and the humanitarian aid effort. The most recent displacement in central Somalia region reportedly has uprooted up to 7,000people or more.UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:57
• Production Date: 16 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: U100116c

Description

STORY: SOMALIA / FOOD DISTRIBUTION
TRT: 1.57
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 10-12 DECEMBER 2009, SOMALIA

Shotlist

FILE - 10 DECEMBER 2009, MERKA, AFGOYE, SOMALIA

1. Pan right, displaced living in makeshift settlements
2. Wide shot, huts and displaced walking
3. Pan right, displaced around huts
4. Various shots, family standing by hut

FILE – 12 DECEMBER 2009, AFGOI, SOMALIA

5. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Hawa Abdi Mohammed, displaced, Somalia:
“I fled because of the fighting. There was a lot of shelling. Some of your children died because of the shelling. I had eight children and 3 were killed because of that fighting.”

FILE - 12 DECEMBER 2009, AFGOYE, SOMALIA

6. Wide shot, distribution of goods to the displaced
7. Wide shot, truck with food
8. Med shot, displaced getting food
9. Close up, children
10. Med shot, staff unloading food from truck
11. Wide shot, staff unloading food from truck
12. Med shot, unloading food from truck
13. Various shots, unloading food bags unto the street
14. Pan left, displaced cueing for food
15. Med shot, man sitting on the ground with bag of food
16. Various shots, young girl eating

FILE - 11 DECEMBER 2009, MERKA, SOMALIA

17. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Fadma Abdi, displaced, Somalia:
“We have no medications, no food, no water. We have nothing. We need help from people all over the world, both Muslims and Christians to come and help us displaced people.”

FILE - 11 DECEMBER 2009, MERKA, AFGOYE, SOMALIA

18. Wide shot, men passing by camera holding bags of food
19. Med shot, woman placing bags of food inside hut
20. Wide shot, huts
21. Med shot, woman washing dishes in wide metal bucket
22. Various shots, woman washing dishes
23. Med shot, mother and child
24. Med shot, family under hut
25. Med shot, young girls and mother
26. Med shot, baby sleeping under hut
27. Close up, baby sleeping

Storyline

Humanitarian access to the displaced is limited because of the deteriorating security situation throughout Somalia. Those who fled their homes in and around Mogoadishu left without taking anything with them. As a result, they arrive traumatized and destitute.

SOUNDBITE (Somali) Hawa Abdi Mohammed, displaced, Somalia:
“I fled because of the fighting. There was a lot of shelling. Some of your children died because of the shelling. I had eight children and three were killed because of that fighting.”

UNHCR recently delivered household items to 6,000 of the displaced. Each household received a bag containing cooking pots, water jugs, and plastic sheeting to help repel the heat and rain.

It’s not much, but for those who fled with nothing it helps. The assistance targeted those who fled to Afgoye and Merka, located in central Somalia. The dispalced live in huts built from bits of fabric and sticks. There is no running water, no sanitation, no food and little else.

SOUNDBITE (Somali) Fadma Abdi, displaced, Somalia:
“We have no medications, no food, no water. We have nothing. We need help from people all over the world, both Muslims and Christians to come and help us displaced people.”

Only a significant reduction in the violence will enable UNHCR and other humanitarian agencies to respond to the real needs of the more than 1.5 million people displaced inside Somalia.

The dire aid situation means that more Somalis are seeking safety outside their country. In 2009 more than a half million Somalis sought refuge in neighboring countries.