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SUDAN / TURALEI DISPLACED
STORY: SUDAN / TURALEI DISPLACED
TRT: 1:54
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 MAY 2011, TURALEI, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, returnees from Abyei
2. Med shot, elderly and children
3. Close up, child
4. Med shot, women waiting for food
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anyeil Languar, mother of three:
“There is problem in Abyei there is war, the Government army started shooting at people from there we started running, small children died, many people died, now we are suffering because of the war in Abyei.”
6. Med shot, mother holding children
7 Med shot, Regina and her children seated under a tree
8. SOUNDBITE (Dinka/Arabic) Regina , mother of four:
“We ran from Abyei and here stay in open air, nothing to eat, we want mat to sleep on and we want blank to cover ourselves, we want shelter to take cover we came from Abyei and now sleeping under this tree.”
9. Wide shot, large number of displaced people waiting for WFP food
10. Med shot, Lise Grande,UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande,UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan:
“What we are doing in the United Nations is, we are bringing in metric tons of food we have oil, we are providing to the people right now as you can see. In addition to that we are going to bring them plastic shitting, there is medical screening going on, we are doing everything we can working around the clock to help make sure that the condition of the people stabilizes and things start to improve.”
12. Wide shot, food distribution center
STORY
Tens of thousands of displaced people mostly women and children many of them without possession from Abyei have arrived in Turalei -about 80 miles from Abyei town- in the south's Twic county following the recent eruption of fighting in Abyei town.
North Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) seized control of the Abyei region last Saturday (21 May) by moving tanks into the main town, drawing international condemnation seven weeks before south Sudan secedes to form a new nation
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anyeil Languar, mother of three
“There is problem in Abyei there is war, the Government army started shooting at people from there we started running, small children died, many people died, now we are suffering because of the war in Abyei.”
Large number of people have continued to move southwards by foot. Humanitarian conditions among the displaced are precarious, while sporadic insecurity, heavy rainfall and the poor state of many roads have also added to the inability of relief agencies to reach displaced group.
Regina a mother of four said that her children have not had any food for the past four days.
SOUNDBITE (Dinka/Arabic) Regina , mother of four
“We ran from Abyei and here stay in open air, nothing to eat, we want mat to sleep on and we want blank to cover ourselves, we want shelter to take cover we came from Abyei and now sleeping under this tree.”
Lise Grande, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan visited Turalei today, and said that the United Nations had responded quickly to the need of the displaced population, providing them with food and oil.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande,UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan:
“What we are doing in the United Nations is, we are bringing in metric tons of food we have oil, we are providing to the people right now as you can see. In addition to that we are going to bring them plastic shitting, there is medical screening going on, we are doing everything we can working around the clock to help make sure that the condition of the people stabilizes and things start to improve.”
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