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SUDAN / SOUTH SUDAN UPDATE
STORY: SUDAN / SOUTH SUDAN UPDATE
TRT: 1:49
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 JANUARY 2010, JUBA, SUDAN / FILE
1. Wide shot, Ministry of Information exterior
2. Wide shot, Office of Information minister
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information, Government of South Sudan:
“This nation which is going to be born is being born out of a popular decision of our people.”
4. Med. shot, Barnaba Marial Benjamin being interviewed
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information, Government of South Sudan:
“We know where we are coming from, very difficult years in the struggle, we know where we are now and we know where we are going to. All we are asking is that we need to be assisted and cooperate with this new nation so that we come a part of this family of civilized nations, this is what we look into.”
6. Close up, Benjamin’s hand
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information, Government of South Sudan:
“For the last six years we have been running this part as southern Sudan and there are many things within the government structures we have got. South Sudan Police force for example you have got South Sudan Legislative Assembly, there are a lot of things. If we are going to change the name you can guess how many things we need to change.”
FILE – 9 JANUARY 2011, MALAKL, SUDAN
8. Wide shot, returnees inside a boat
9. Med. shot, family of returnees with children
10. Close up, elder returnee
11. Wide shot, furniture and returnees
26 JANUARY 2010, JUBA, SUDAN
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information, Government of South Sudan:
“I think this is the time where the rest of the world, especially the UN agencies and other NGO’s should put into their consideration that there is going to be a great need for humanitarian assistance to the people of Southern Sudan.”
13. Med. shot, Benjamin being interviewed
A new nation will transpire in few days and it will be called South Sudan. Preliminary results on a referendum seceding from the north show the majority of people to have voted for independence.
Dr. Barnab Marial Benjamin, minister of information, called on all the nations to welcome South Sudan.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information:
“This nation which is going to be born is being born out of a popular decision of our people.”
He also said the international community should participate and assist the young nation.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information:
“We know where we are coming from, very difficult years in the struggle, we know where we are now and we know where we are going to. All we are asking is that we need to be assisted and cooperate with this new nation so that we come a part of this family of civilized nations, this is what we look into.”
A steering committee on post-independence has been working on several issues including the name of the new nation. They had to choose from, Nile Republic, The Kush, Juwama Republic, Azania and South Sudan - and decided on the name that will conform with the present situation and decided on South Sudan.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information:
“For the last six years we have been running this part as southern Sudan and there are many things within the government structures we have got - South Sudan Police force for example you have got South Sudan Legislative Assembly, there are a lot of things. If we are going to change the name you can guess how many things we need to change.”
With the large number of southerners who are internally displaced and the new returnees, Marial said that there would be a need for tremendous humanitarian assistance and called on the United Nations (UN) and Non-Governmental Organization's (NGOs) for their support.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Information:
“I think this is the time where the rest of the world, especially the UN agencies and other NGO’s should put into their consideration that there is going to be a great need for humanitarian assistance to the people of Southern Sudan.”
Early results from this month's referendum indicate almost 99 percent of southerners voted to secede after decades of civil war which claimed 2 million lives.
In his first public address, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday pledged support for a new southern state. President Bashir said that since secession has become a reality with almost 99 percent of southerners choosing separation, “we will go to the south and celebrate with them," Bashir told supporters during a visit to the northern River Nile state. The president also reiterated that his government will support the new southern state and will hold onto its stability and will remain friends.
The referendum's preliminary results are expected to be announced by Feb. 2, and depending on whether appeals are launched in the courts, the final result will be declared on Feb. 7 or 14.
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