SUDAN / REFERENDUM REAX WRAP

Northern and southern Sudanese react to the upcoming referendum while campaign posters calling for a unified state line the main streets and bridges of Sudan's capital Khartoum. UNMIS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:12
• Production Date: 4 January 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNMIS
• Subject Topical: REFERENDUM
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110104c

Description

STORY: SUDAN / REFERENDUM REAX WRAP
TRT: 2.12
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC/ NATS

DATELINE: 3 JANUARY 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN / 31 DECEMBER 2010, JUBA, SUDAN

Shotlist

3 JANUARY 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

1. Wide shot, streets, billboard reads “Our strength in our unity”
2. Close up, signboard
3. Wide shot, large billboard reads “ No for southern secession”
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Sadig Babiker, Khartoum Resident:
“Unity is better than secession. Secession is like a cancer, if it infects the body it will damage all the other parts.”
5. Wide shot, billboard in street
6. Close up, billboard
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Mohammad Babiker, Government Official:
“Openly, the secession has already taken place, according to the southern and northern politicians, that’s what Silva Kiir and Bagn Amum, all of them have stated. Some of southern they leave to the south, some of them are here and we welcome them. If they face hunger and diseases I hope they don’t come back. It’s better that they settle there.”
8. Wide shot, cars on street
9. Wide shot, billboard seen behind bus

31 DECEMBER 2010, JUBA, SUDAN

10. Wide shot, fountain with billboard on background
11. Close up, billboard reading “prepare to vote”
12. Wide shot, motorists in Juba
13. Med shot, man sticking poster on his bus
14. Med shot, man sticking poster on his vehicle
15. Close up, poster
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Mabior, Juba Resident:
“I am very ready to put my voice, to vote for freedom. When I vote for separation I will not be suffering again and I am sure I will win this vote to be in my own country.”
17. Med shot, boy with poster reading “Symbol of Justice”
18. Med shot, man putting sticker on his market stall
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Samuel Matiang, Juba Resident:
“Historically it has never happened, ok? For southern Sudanese having their own need for freedom, but now that this chance has been giving to us, the time for us to express our view by voting, action speaks louder than words.”
20. Wide shot, billboard reading “Symbol of Justice”

Storyline

With preparation for next week’s independence referendum in Southern Sudan in their final stages, public interest and participation continues to grow, both in the north as in the south.

Khartoum has witnessed a large scale dissemination of Unity Campaign posters and billboards around its main streets and bridges.

Most of the signs denounce secession and highlight the benefits of unity.

People on the street expressed their rejection to secession.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al-Sadig Babiker, Khartoum Resident:
“Unity is better than secession. Secession is like a cancer, if it infects the body it will damage all the other parts.”

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Mohammad Babiker, Government Official:
“Openly, the secession has already taken place, according to the southern and northern politicians, that’s what Silva Kiir and Bagn Amum, all of them have stated. Some of southern they leave to the south, some of them are here and we welcome them. If they face hunger and diseases I hope they don’t come back. It’s better that they settle there.”

Meanwhile in Juba, public sentiment appears to be clearly leaning towards secession as the public campaign becomes more and more visible.

Residents expressed hope for an independent south and confidence that the referendum will go their way.

SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Mabior, Juba Resident:
“I am very ready to put my voice, to vote for freedom. When I vote for separation I will not be suffering again and I am sure I will win this vote to be in my own country.”

SOUNDBITE (English) Samuel Matiang, Juba Resident:
“Historically it has never happened, ok? For southern Sudanese having their own need for freedom, but now that this chance has been giving to us, the time for us to express our view by voting, action speaks louder than words.”

The southern region’s referendum on independence is the culminating stage of the accord that ended 20 years of civil war between north and south Sudan.