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WESTERN COTE D’IVOIRE / HUMANITARIAN
STORY: WESTERN COTE D’IVOIRE / HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 7:33
SOURCE: ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGES: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: MAY 2011, ZOUAN-HOUNIEN / TOULEPLEU-BLOLEQUIN, WESTERN COTE D’VOIRE
1. Various shots, convoy of the humanitarian tour (ballot) on the main road connecting Duékoué, Guiglo, Blolequin
2. Various shots, arrival of the humanitarian convoy to Duékoué
3. Various shots, inventory of the populations returned to Duékoué
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Bamba Cavally, International Organization of Migration:
“I am Bamba Cavally from IOM, we have IDPs coming mainly from the zone of Toulepleu, of Toulepleu-Blolequin and by necessity, they gathered together here.”
5. Various shots, refugee camp in Duékoué
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Bamba Cavally, International Organization of Migration:
“General assistance, shelter, health, food and water and purification.”
7. Wide shot, refugees of Guiglo
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Bamba Tane Mahamane, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Western Cote d’Ivoire:
“We brought plastic sheeting with our partner Caritas to go up these sheds which you see. Here they are 3,500 persons, well we shall say to you more but according to our census (inventory) it is 3,500, thus they can contain in 50 sheds, you saw this model of shed.”
9. Various shots, construction of shed
10. Wide shot, new refugee camp in Duékoué
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Father Père Gilbert Kouyasso, Notre-Dame of Nazareth Parish:
“It is necessary to recognize that it had a lot of birth here, she is not the only one, has little near 15 births, everything crossed very here, it has structure, stout women, midwives who are to help those women which has to deliver (to give birth). And then, it has doctors without borders which have begins to install rooms of childbirth.”
12. Med shot, humanitarian coordinator Ndolam Ngokwe taking with wet nurse
13. Med shot, a woman helping the children to wash himself hands
14. Med shot, women watching the Refugee’s children of Duékoué
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Father Père Gilbert Kouyasso, Notre-Dame of Nazareth Parish:
“All those who are here, are looking forward to the security of their region, they are here to find protection with us, but they stay with God. God is also everywhere and the security of the region, it is a problem today, if villages and camps are secured, people can return easily.”
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Child:
“I am Bohe Cyriaque, I am moved by war, I come from Blolequin because it had the war.”
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Victim of war:
“I was saved by the Red Cross.”
18. Med shot, calcined house
19. Med shot, remnants of massacre at Bloléquin
20. Med shot, soldiers at scene of the massacre at common grave to Bloléquin
21. Med shot, buried clothes of the death
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Sergeant Lan Andre, Cote d’Ivoire Republican Forces:
“In March when the operations continued on this city of Blolequin, we had received the civil population which was threatened. Thus we grouped them together them here with the aim of feeding them and putting them a little bit under cover. ONUCI had arrived with the aim of feeding these people there, thus when we made a step, in a lapse of two hours, people returned to murder all people who were there, all those who were there, hundreds of persons.”
23. Med shot, human bones
24. Med shot, woman showing mass graves to Duékoué
25. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr. Bamba Tane Mahamane, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Western Cote d’Ivoire:
“All which in red, is inhabited, to all which is in blue, it is the IDPs which are in families, in white means that they have nobody. We are going to work with partner which are going to cover this zone besides the MSF, thus that the population will be correctly installed, we shall have a regular mobile private hospital here.”
26. Med shot, delegation of humanitarian coordinator
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Ndolamb Ngokwey, Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Mission in Cote d’Ivoire:
“We all saw the destruction, we saw the devastation, but beyond all that we saw the effects of war, effects of violence, we also saw the sadness and the distress of the populations. I believe that as humanitarian worker, it is, it which calls us. We realize as well as, it has an improvement in the sanitary conditions, in the conditions of nutritional supply. But at the same time the big problem which was indicated to us everywhere, it is the challenge of security because most of the persons moved want to return. But we notice that the perception of the insecurity which still prevails and the objective residual insecurity which still exists make that people do not want to return. For me, it is the big lesson of this visit which is that the problem lives but it has a will to forge ahead so that people find their life in the conditions of dignity, in the conditions of security.”
28. Med shot, church being used as base for refugees in Guiglo
United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator Ndolamb Ngokwey visited western Cote d’Ivoire where an estimated 150,000 people remain displaced by the recent post-election violence in the country.
SOUNDBITE (French) Ndolamb Ngokwey, Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Mission in Cote d’Ivoire:
“We all saw the destruction, we saw the devastation, but beyond all that we saw the effects of war, effects of violence, we also saw the sadness and the distress of the populations.”
Despite increased humanitarian assistance, the vast majority of the displaced in the western town of Duékoué still live in extremely overcrowded conditions, with many women and children living in the open air.
Against the backdrop of continuing security concerns, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) has started to provide return assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in western Cote d'Ivoire.
SOUNDBITE (French) Bamba Cavally, International Organization of Migration:
“The assistance generally, shelter, health, food and water and purification.”
An initial group of some 45,000 will be assisted over the next month to return to their villages and communities in the western towns of Zouen Hounien, Bin-Houyé and Blolequin.
SOUNDBITE (French) Sergeant Lan Andre, Cote d’Ivoire Republican Forces:
“In March, when the operations continued on this city of Blolequin, we had received the civil population which was threatened. Thus we grouped them together them here with the aim of feeding them and putting them a little bit under cover. ONUCI had arrived with the aim of feeding these people there, thus when we made a step, in a lapse of two hours, people returned to murder all people who were there, all those who were there, hundreds of persons.”
IOM staff on the ground in the region reported that although security has returned to some areas in the west of the country, many IDPs are still reluctant to return to their villages and plantations, fearing reprisal attacks from armed groups.
About 27,000 IDPs, who have been sheltering in the Catholic mission in Duékoué, refuse to return to their villages in fear for their lives or because their homes have been taken over by those who chased them away.
SOUNDBITE (French) Father Père Gilbert Kouyasso, Notre-Dame of Nazareth Parish:
“All those who are here, are looking forward to the security of their region, they are here to find protection with us, but they stay with God. God is also everywhere and the security of the region, it is a problem today, if villages and camps are secured, people can return easily.”
Working with the local authorities, IOM has identified land and is in the process of establishing a new camp to ease the congestion at the Catholic mission as well as hiring more local staff to provide additional assistance to the displaced.
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