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SUDAN / ABYEI DISLACED
STORY: SUDAN / ABYEI DISPLACED
TRT: 1:17
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MAY 2011, TURALEI, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, returnees from Abyei waiting for WFP van
2. Med shot, women lining up for food
3. Close up, children seated under a shade
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominic Diim Deng, Commissioner, Twic County:
“The situation is really getting worse and worse, if there is no more intervention, with the available little food we have now if we are going to distribute it I think this will not be enough for every body, they may need more food.”
5. Med shot, women lining up
6. Med shot, Elderly women begging for food
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan:
“There are about 25,000 people that are here in Turalei. They desperately need food and their condition is pretty serious. Many of the people that are surrounding us have fled from Abyei. Some of them have been walking up to three four five days, along the way they have not have water, they haven’t had food, many of them are dehydrated and exhausted.”
8. Med shot, elderly woman seated
9. Wide shot, distribution of humanitarian food aid
Humanitarian operations are underway in southern Sudan, focusing on identifying the location of the displaced and responding to critical humanitarian needs following the violence last week in Abyei.
However, the scale of the displacement has placed considerable strain on the humanitarian response operation and conditions among displaced groups are worrying.
Insecurity, the lack of response partners on the ground and logistical constraints have limited access by humanitarian actors to Agok and surrounding villages, as has a chronic shortage of fuel.
Based on reports from a variety of sources, the number of people displaced from the Abyei area has risen to an estimated 60,000 people.
Commissioner for Twic County Dominic Deng said with the numbers of displaced from Abyei increasing daily, the food supply they have will not be sufficient.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dominic Diim Deng, Commissioner, Twic County:
“The situation is really getting worse and worse, if there is no more intervention, with the available little food we have now if we are going to distribute it I think this will not be enough for every body, they may need more food.”
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said an estimated 25,000 people have made their way south to Turalei and reports of new arrivals continue.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan:
“There are about 25,000 people that are here in Turalei. They desperately need food and their condition is pretty serious. Many of the people that are surrounding us have fled from Abyei. Some of them have been walking up to three four five days, along the way they have not have water, they haven’t had food, many of them are dehydrated and exhausted.”
For its part, the World Food Programme (WFP), which was supporting 62,000 people before the clashes began, has started distributing food to some 6,000 newly-uprooted people.
Meanwhile, food rations from UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Abyei have been ransacked and stocks of emergency relief items looted, hindering the aid response.
Deadly clashes have claimed dozens of lives since the start of the year, when a referendum on Abyei’s status that was supposed to have been held never took place amid disagreement on voter eligibility.
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