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SUDAN / INDEPENDENCE PREPS
STORY: SUDAN / INDEPENDENCE PREPS
TRT: 3:00
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 21, 25, 29 JUNE 2011, JUBA, SUDAN
21 JUNE 2011-JUBA, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Juba town
2. Med shot, women planting
3. Close up, planting flowers
4. Med shot, women volunteers
5. Close up, T-shirt reading “Keep Juba clean and green”
6. Med shot, Cecilia Yona, planting flowers
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Cecilia Yona, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Southern Sudan:
“When we received the announcement for the beautification of Juba town, I accept this call and I came here. All the women joined hands so that we prepare for our new nation, so that our country can also be compared with others.”
8. Med shot, men working
9. Wide shot, marking paved road
10. Wide shot, John Garang Memorial compound
11. Med shot, men working
12 Med shot, men working
13. Med shot, Marry Jervas Yak, Minister of Human Resource Development talking to engineers
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Marry Jervas Yak, Minister of Human Resource Development, Southern Sudan:
“We are quite optimistic that before the deadline of the 9th of July we should have being able to put the place in shape for the celebration to take place.”
15. Wide shot, builders working
16. Med shot, mixing cement
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Marry Jervas Yak, Minister of Human Resource Development, Southern Sudan:
“The challenges we are facing now is the time factor. It is true that we started late putting up the construction and all that, but at the same time we are optimistic that we will meet the timeline.”
29 JUNE 2011, JUBA, SUDAN
18. Wide shot, new Juba airport terminal
19. Various shots, men working
20. Wide shot, Abiodun Awosina the Resident Engineer touring airport
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Abiodun Awosina, Resident Engineer:
“We are still working day and night to make sure that we achieve the scope of work that we need to complete before South Sudan independence.”
22. Wide shot, unfinished terminal
23. More of airport
24. Various shots, working on runway
25. Wide shot, Juba town
DATELINE: 25 JUNE 2011-JUBA, SUDAN
24. Wide shot, Security organ looking at confiscated weapons
25. Various shots, different types of confiscated weapons
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Achuil Tito Madut, Inspector General of Police, Southern Sudan:
“Any problem that would occur will harm the general public not only the security forces, for that matter for us to be in peace we need to work together.”
27. Wide shot, confiscated weapons
Juba, which will be the capital of the new Republic of South Sudan from 9 July 2011, is getting a face lift in preparations for the upcoming independence celebrations.
Earlier this year, southern Sudan voted in an internationally monitored referendum for independence and its secession from northern Sudan.
Juba does not have foreign embassies or high rise buildings like other world capitals. A few years ago, many of the roads were not paved but now, the government is rushing to make Juba look like an acceptable capital city.
On the main roads in Juba it is now common to see groups of women cleaning dusty roads, planting flowers and working alongside men. Cecilia Yona from the Ministry of Youth and Sports is someone who helps plant flowers the capital’s public spaces.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Cecilia Yona, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Southern Sudan:
“When we received the announcement for the beautification of Juba town, I accept this call and I came here. All the women joined hands so that we prepare for our new nation, so that our country can also be compared with others.”
The celebration will be held at John Garang Memorial. Work is still underway and people are working day and night in order to meet deadline.
Minister of Human Resource Development Marry Jervas Yak said that she is optimistic that the construction will be finished before 9 July. The construction is progressing, and the builders are working around the clock.
SOUNDBITE (English) Marry Jervas Yak, Minister of Human Resource Development, Southern Sudan:
“We are quite optimistic that before the deadline of the 9th of July we should have being able to put the place in shape for the celebration to take place.”
The construction at Juba International Airport, roads, and the main John Garang memorial place and many more are still not yet to finish.
SOUNDBITE (English) Marry Jervas Yak, Minister of Human Resource Development, Southern Sudan:
“The challenges we are facing now is the time factor. It is true that we started late putting up the construction and all that, but at the same time we are optimistic that we will meet the timeline.”
Preparations are also underway in Juba for the arrival of heads of states and international guests expected to attend independence day celebrations.
The government of Southern Sudan is expanding Juba International Airport and a world-class terminal building is already under construction.
Abiodun Awosina the Resident Engineer has high hopes that the Juba international airport will be ready to receive about 30 heads of states and dignitaries during 9 July celebrations.
SOUNDBITE (English) Abiodun Awosina, Resident Engineer:
“We are still working day and night to make sure that we achieve the scope of work that we need to complete before South Sudan independence.”
Meanwhile, security forces were deployed on Saturday (25 June) along all major routes leading in and out of Juba town in search for illegal arms.
Southern Sudan's Security Committee in charge of independence celebrations said it has collected more 780 assorted weapons in Juba in a search conducted last week. The confiscated weapons include machine guns, AK 47 assault rifles, pistols, ammunition and bows and arrows.
Addressing the press in Juba on Sunday while displaying the seized arms, the south Sudan's Inspector General of Police Achuil Tito Madut said that the exercise is a part of the efforts by security forces to ensure that Juba is safe from illegal arms, ahead of the 9 July independence celebrations.
SOUNDBITE (English) Achuil Tito Madut, Inspector General of Police, Southern Sudan:
“Any problem that would occur will harm the general public not only the security forces, for that matter for us to be in peace we need to work together.”
The exercise is a part of the efforts by security forces to ensure that Juba is safe from illegal arms, ahead of the 9 July independence celebrations. Over twenty thousand from the army, presidential guards, police and security organs were deployed for the exercise.
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