HOLMES / KALMA CAMP

The UN voices concern that outbreaks of infectious diseases such as malaria could soon erupt in a massive camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur that has been the scene of recent deadly violence and is currently closed off to humanitarian workers.
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• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:27
• Production Date: 13 August 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS-AFRICAN UNION MISSION IN DARFUR - UNAMID
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U100813b

Description

STORY: HOLMES / KALMA CAMP
TRT: 1.27
SOURCE: UNTV / UNAMID
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 AUGUST 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

25 NOVEMBER 2008, KALMA CAMP, SOUTH DARFUR

1. Wide shot, Kalma internally displaced camp
2. Med shot, USG for humanitarian affairs, John Holmes
3. Close up, Holmes
4. Med shot, women talking to Holmes
5. Med shot, children looking through as Holmes talks to women

11 AUGUST 2010, NEW YORK CITY

6. Wide shot, exterior United nations headquarters
7. Cutaway journalist taking notes
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sir John Holmes, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations:
“We are extremely concerned with what’s been happening in Kalma camp, the violence that was there a few weeks ago and the resulting situation. We have been obviously in very close touch with the government both at local level and at central level; the government at central level has assured us that there was no problem about access to the camp, but as far as I know we humanitarian organizations are still not been able to go into the camp following that violence and that means that the 50, 60 thousand IDPs left in the camp are being deprived for the moment of food, the rations, there are problems about water because of lack of fuel coming into the camp, and therefore we are extremely concerned about that. We’ve been raining it strongly indeed with the government.”

25 NOVEMBER 2008, KALMA CAMP, SOUTH DARFUR

9. Wide, John Holmes talking to IDP leaders in Kalma camp
10. Wide shot, IDP leaders listening

Storyline

The United Nations (UN) is voicing concern that outbreaks of infectious diseases such as malaria could soon erupt in a massive camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Darfur that has been the scene of recent deadly violence and is currently closed off to humanitarian workers.
Aid groups are still awaiting authorization to enter Kalma camp, home to more than 100,000 people as a result of the continuing conflict in Darfur, the joint African Union-UN peacekeeping mission to the region (UNAMID) reported yesterday (12 August).
The camp currently has no operating health-care facility because the medical professionals who would staff them are based in Nyala, the nearby South Darfur state capital, as they await permission to enter.
On Wednesday (11 August) UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes told reporters in New York that he was “extremely concerned” with the violence and the resulting situation in Kalma camp. He said that at a central level the government had assured him there was no problem about access to the camp, but added that humanitarian organizations were still not able to go into the camp.
Aid workers have also been unable to deliver and distribute food rations for August, while stocks of fuel – which is needed to pump clean water – were running low as well.
Sudanese authorities cut off humanitarian access after protests and deadly clashes erupted recently in Kalma following the conclusion of the latest round of Darfur peace talks in Doha, Qatar, with some IDPs contending they were unrepresented.