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COTE D’IVOIRE / RETURNEES
STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / RETURNEES
TRT: 2.55
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / YACOUBA / NATS
DATELINE: 1, 2 MAY 2011 / 30 APRIL 2011, NIAMBLY, COTE D’IVOIRE
2 MAY 2011, NIAMBLY, COTE D’IVOIRE
1. Pan left, car with shattered windshield showing bullet holes
2. Med shot, military man passing in front of rubble
3. Wide shot, people walking in the main street of the village, carrying stuff
4. Med shot, people walking in the main street of the village, carrying stuff
30 APRIL 2011, GBOUENTA, COTE D’IVOIRE
5. Wide shot, Women crossing the Ivorian border carrying trolley filled with belongings
1 MAY 2011, DAOUBA, COTE D’IVOIRE
6. Med shot, Reine Kpea Zehe, 27 years old mother of one getting off barge carrying bag with sister-in-law Deborah
7. Med shot, Deborah carrying bag on her head
8. Close up, Reine’s belongings on the river side
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Reine Kpea Zehe, Mother:
“The Liberians were kind enough to give us a home and we were safe there, but the conditions we really difficult. We have tried to come back several times but now is the right moment. Our brothers told us we could come back.”
1 MAY 2011, BIN HOUYE, COTE D’IVOIRE
10. Pan right, Reine, Deborah and family carrying bags on their head towards village
11. Med shot, Reine entering her house
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Reine Kpea Zehe, Mother:
“They took everything, my mattress, mo son’s clothes, and in the kitchen, they took all my rice”
13. Med shot, Reine handing out a handful of grain from a bag
14. Med shot, Reine happily moving her nephew and carrying him in her arms
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Reine Kpea Zehe, Mother:
“I feel good, even though we have nothing to eat, I feel at ease. I live the way I lived before. It’s all good now.”
16. Pan left, Reine’s house
2 MAY 2011, NIAMBLY, COTE D’IVOIRE
17. Wide shot, from a moving car, destroyed and burnt houses near the road
18. Pan right, destroyed houses
19. Med shot, door to a room in a destroyed house
2 MAY 2011, KOARO, COTE D’IVOIRE
20. Pan right, destroyed houses, rumbles
21. Med shot, interior of a deserted and destroyed house from outside
22. Wide shot, people walking towards center of village
23. Med shot, Rose Van, 26 years old, mother of 4, sitting on a bench with fellow residents
24. Tilt down, Rose and her new born daughter
25. SOUNDBITE (Yacouba) Rose Van, Mother:
“After I gave birth, I received no care. My child hasn’t received any vaccination so far, she has no name, and no official papers in Cote d’Ivoire.”
26. Med shot, children in front of a house in the village
27. Close up, children in the village
28. Med shot, Achille Pihigomeca, 12 years old, walking inside his destroyed house
29. SOUNDBITE (French) Achille Pihigomeca, 12 years old:
“I had my bicycle here, and my schoolbooks and my bag but they stole everything.”
30. Med shot, Achille sitting down on a bench in the village
31. Wide shot, Children running in the village school, still closed
32. Close up, young boy.
During the post-election violence that hit Cote d’Ivoire about six months ago, 65, 000 Ivorians had fled to Liberia for shelter.
Today, many have started to come back to their country.
Reine and her sister in law Deborah just came back from Liberia where they fled to four months ago.
It’s the second time they crossed the border, to bring their belongings back home.
SOUNDBITE (French) Reine Kpea Zehe, Mother:
“The Liberians were kind enough to give us a home and we were safe there, but the conditions we really difficult. We have tried to come back several times but now is the right moment. Our brothers told us we could come back.”
When she first came back to her village, Reine discovered her house and the entire village had been completely looted.
SOUNDBITE (French) Reine Kpea Zehe, Mother:
“They took everything, my mattress, my son’s clothes, and in the kitchen they took all my rice.”
Even the granary has been emptied leaving the villagers with very little food.
SOUNDBITE (French) Reine Kpea Zehe, Mother:
“I feel good, even though we have nothing to eat, I feel at ease. I live the way I lived before. It’s all good now.”
Reine’s house might not have suffered much damage but during the recent skirmishes in western Cote d’Ivoire, many villages were destroyed and many houses burnt down.
The village of Koaro, a couple miles from the Liberian border, was still completely deserted a few days ago. Now, half of the 1,000 residents have come back.
Among them, Rose Van was eight months pregnant when she fled to Liberia.
She had to give birth in a Liberian camp under very harsh conditions.
SOUNDBITE (Yacouba) Rose Van, Mother:
“After I gave birth, I received no care. My child hasn’t received any vaccination so far, she has no name, and no official papers in Cote d’Ivoire.”
Because of the tense situation in the country, children in the village haven’t lived a normal life for months.
Achille is 12 years old. He hasn’t gone to school since last Christmas.
SOUNDBITE (French) Achille Pihigomeca, 12 years old:
“I had my bicycle here, and my schoolbooks and my bag but they stole everything.”
Achille’s wish is now to have a new bike and books to go back to school.
So far, only half of the 800 000 children who were forced out of school have been able to go back to class.
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