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SUDAN / HOLMES
STORY: SUDAN / HOLMES
TRT: 1:48
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 27 - 28 MAY 2010, WAU/ KWACJOK, SUDAN
27 MAY 2010, KWACJOK, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, John Holmes arriving
2. Med shot, women and children
3. Close up, child breastfeeding
27 MAY 2010, WAU, SUDAN
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“There is no obvious definition for a humanitarian crisis, but I think we are in a crisis situation in certain parts in South Sudan.”
5. Med shot, women at a clinic
6. Med shot, mother and child
7. Med shot, John Holmes talking to group of women
8. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We are talking about around one-and-a-half million people who are severally food insecure. That means they have not that sufficient sources of food not be hungry at the end of the day for their children. The malnutrition rates are alarming in some places well above the emergency thresholds. So the situation is very serious, I think that if we act in time, if we get enough food in the area, preposition before the rainy season, if we have enough malnutrition treatment centers, then I think we can prevent an actual disaster. “
9. Wide shot, group of women and children
27 MAY 2010, KWACJOK, SUDAN
10. Med shot, John Holmes talking to a mother
11. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“If we are going to make sure we have all the emergency food, the nutritional help and the help in other areas like water, health and education. So, that’s why one of the things I will be doing is appealing to donors to try to be more generous, despite all the other pressures on them, to try to meet those needs.”
12. Close up, mother and child
13. Med shot, mother and child under a tree
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes , has called for urgent action to avert a possible natural disaster in parts of South Sudan.
Speaking during a visit to feeding centers in Wau and Kwacjok, Holmes voiced his concern about food insecurity, malnutrition among children and tribal violence.
Holmes described the situation as "a humanitarian crisis" and urged donors not to forget the region.
SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“There is no obvious definition for a humanitarian crisis, but I think we are in a crisis situation in certain parts in South Sudan.”
Holmes expressed concern about the rising number of people facing increased levels of food insecurity, currently estimated at one-and-a-half million in South Sudan. The insecurity is mainly attributed to a shortage of rains and exacerbated by tribal conflict.
He added that if action is taken in a timely manner, food is received before the rainy season, and enough malnutrition treatment centers are set up, then a disaster situation could be averted.”
SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We are talking about around one-and-a-half million people who are severally food insecure. That means they have not that sufficient sources of food not be hungry at the end of the day for their children. The malnutrition rates are alarming in some places well above the emergency thresholds. So the situation is very serious, I think that if we act in time, if we get enough food in the area, preposition before the rainy season, if we have enough malnutrition treatment centers, then I think we can prevent an actual disaster. “
The humanitarian budget for Sudan for 2010 is five-hundred-and-thirty million dollars. Of this amount only twenty-two percent of the total budget had been raised by May. Holmes said that he will appeal to donors to accelerate their contributions despite all their other pressures.
SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“If we are going to make sure we have all the emergency food, the nutritional help and the help in other areas like water, health and education. So, that’s why one of the things I will be doing is appealing to donors to try to be more generous, despite all the other pressures on them, to try to meet those needs.”
The United Nations estimates a quarter of the population of Warrab State suffers from acute malnutrition, compared with fifteen percent for all of South Sudan, a situation Holmes said was poised to become more desperate in coming months.
He reminded the people and the government of South Sudan to focus on the development of agriculture.
Holmes' four-day mission will also take him to Darfur, an arid region gripped by civil war.
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