Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoUnifeed
AMOS / SOMALIA
STORY: AMOS / SOMALIA
TRT: 3:27
SOURCE: IRIN / OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SOMALI
DATELINE: 2 FEBRUARY 2011, GAROWE / GALKAYO, PUNTLAND, SOMALIA
1. Various shots, Valerie Amos arriving at Galkayo airport
2. Various shots, Amos in a convoy to IDP settlement
3. Wide shot, Halabokad settlement
4. Various shots, Amos arriving at settlement
5. Med shot, Amos meets the IDPs
6. Med shot, OCHA staff briefs Amos about the camp
7. Med shot, Amos enters tent of IDP
8. SOUNDBITE (Somali) IDP woman:
"We need to be given food, we need shelter; we need water and we need security. At night people come into the camp and rape and steal. Our lives are in danger."
9. Med shot, Amos with IDP woman and her family
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General, Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“Well we try very hard to make sure we talk to all of the groups, we talk to the TFG, we talk to the armed groups where we are able to, we talk to people who control the government at a region level because from our point of view, it’s important that we get the resources to the people who need it. The security situation makes that extremely hard and the message that I’ve to all those who are engaged in violence and fighting is that the impact of this is on the ordinary people – the women, the children, the boys and the men, who want to be able to lead a decent live, who want to be able to go to work, who want to be educated. It’s what everyone in the world wants, there’s absolutely no reason why the people in Somalia shouldn’t have that as well.”
11. Wide shot, compound of Puntland President
12. Various shots, Amos meeting with Puntland President Abdirahman Faroole
United Nations (UN) top humanitarian chief ended her three-day visit to Kenya and Somalia today (3 February 2011) calling attention to the crises in the two countries where recurring droughts have deprived millions of already vulnerable people of their livelihoods, leaving them in need of assistance.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), recurrent droughts and inadequate rainfall in Kenya and Somalia have eroded livelihoods, especially for pastoral communities which have become food insecure.
In Somalia, a combination of long-term insecurity and drought has driven up the number of people in need to 2.4 million, with the situation expected to worsen before the onset of the next rainy season in April.
Amos visited the Halabokad settlement for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Galkacyo yesterday (2 February 2011), one of the few IDP settlements where the residents own the land, the result of a local initiative started in April last year.
At the settlement, an IDP told Amos that the lives of the people in settlement “are in danger” adding that there is a lack of food, shelter, water and security.
An estimated 1.46 million people in Somalia have been internally displaced due to two decades of conflict, according to OCHA. Over the past month, at least 20,000 more people have left their homes in search of water.
At the settlement, Amos spoke about how the security situation in the country makes it hard to “get the resources to the people who need it.”
Amos also travelled to city of Garowe, the capital of the self-declared autonomous administrative region of Puntland in the north-east, where she met with Government officials, including the president, to discuss humanitarian concerns and priorities.
Download
There is no media available to download.
