SOMALIA / FOOD AID

Somali insurgents bar the World Food Programme (WFP) from the famine and war-plagued Horn of Africa country, where the UN says half the population needs emergency food aid. FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:30
• Production Date: 1 March 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: NUTRITION; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: U100301d

Description

STORY: SOMALIA / FOOD AID
SOURCE: UNHCR/ UNICEF/ WFP
TRT: 1.30
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

Shotlist

FILE – UNHCR -12 DECEMBER 2009, AFGOYE, SOMALIA

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

FILE - UNICEF - 2 JULY 2009, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

12. Wide shot, women walking in single file in the IDPs camp
13. Wide shot, in makeshift shelters and family standing by
14. Wide shot, IDP camp
15. Med shot, men loading NFI bags onto cart
16. Wide shot, crowd of displaced people waiting near the Bakara market, Mogadishu

FILE – WFP - 23 JUNE 2008, EL BARDE, SOUTHERN SOMALIA

17. Wide shot, food distribution
18. Med shot, child
19. Tracking shot, man carrying bag
20. Close up, woman with bags of aid being loaded in the background
21. Med shot, man leading donkey cart

Storyline

Somali insurgents announced on Sunday that the World Food Programme (WFP) will be barred from continuing its food distribution effort in the famine and war-plagued Horn of Africa country.

The Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab movement, which controls most of central and southern Somalia, said food distributed by the UN agency had undermined local farmers and accused it of acting with a political agenda.

The group accused the Rome-based agency of distributing food that was past its expiry date, which had caused people to fall ill, and alleged that its operations was disguised support for the weak UN-backed transitional government.

According to the UN, four million people, half the population, needs emergency food aid, with one in every five children suffering from acute malnourishment.

WFP said it is determined to continue helping the people and will continue to do so as long as it’s safe for its staff.