SUDAN / KHARTOUM REAX

As jubilation echoed through Africa's 54th State, South Sudan today, it was business as usual in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:17
• Production Date: 9 July 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110709c

Description

STORY: SUDAN / KHARTOUM REAX
TRT: 2:17
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 9 JULY 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, newspapers
2. Med shot, man and newspaper reading in Arabic “Sudan today: one soul in two bodies – bye bye South of Sudan”
3. Close up, newspaper said in Arabic “Today is declaration of the new state - The Sudanese government officially accepted.”
4. Med shot, man and newspaper
5. Close up, newspaper said in Arabic “Juba folded the Sudanese Flag”
6. Close up, newspaper said in Arabic “Good bye”
7. Close up, traffic light Sign
8. Wide shot, street and moving cars
9. Close up, a photographer
10. Close up, man
11. Wide shot, street and Cars
12. Med shot, men at Street
13. Med shot, man distributing sweets
14. Med shot, singe board written in Arabic “Forum of Justices Peace, welcome to the Islamic Law”
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Altaeb Mustafa, Head of the Forum of Justices Peace:
“We do not see any sign of sadness, but we have seen the people are happy with hope and emotional tears of happiness.”
16. Close up, man dancing
17. Med shot, youth people dancing
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) B. Philip:
“I can not be happy because my mother’s side belongs to the Northern Sudan and therefore I am feeling sad, so how I can be happy? On the other hand I cannot be sad because my father’s family belongs to the Southern Sudan it is a difficult situation for me.”
19. Med shot, girls from northern and southern Sudan
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Modon Leiono, teacher from the South Sudan:
“I am so happy because of the declaration of the South Sudan State after the 21 years of war, I was born here in Khartoum and have never been to the South but I used to see those displaced people coming to the north from the southern areas suffering, so today I am so happy of this independence of a new State.”
21. Wide shot, girls standing

Storyline

As jubilation echoed through Africa’s 54th State, South Sudan today, it was business as usual in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

Major newspapers nonetheless reported on South Sudan’s transition which has seen Africa’s largest country split into two, making it no more the Africa’s largest.

Sudan’s President Omar Al Bashir travelled to Juba to attend the festivities, a promise he had kept to the South even before a referendum vote which led to an overwhelming vote of secession for the South.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Altaeb Mustafa, Head of the Forum of Justices Peace:
“We do not see any sign of sadness, but we have seen the people are happy with hope and emotional tears of happiness.”

Though citizenship issues for South Sudanese people has been a sore thumb in the north resulting to hundreds of thousands of southerners leaving the north, many people of mixed nationalities have been caught in an emotional fix.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) B. Philip:
“I can not be happy because my mother’s side belongs to the Northern Sudan and therefore I am feeling sad, so how I can be happy? On the other hand I cannot be sad because my father’s family belongs to the Southern Sudan it is a difficult situation for me.”

North Sudan has declined to extend dual nationality to South Sudanese nationals following the separation vote, a matter which was discussed in pro-long post referendum issues.

Despite this, the feeling of some of the South Sudanese currently in Khartoum was one of joy.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Modon Leiono, teacher from the South Sudan:
“I am so happy because of the declaration of the South Sudan State after the 21 years of war, I was born here in Khartoum and have never been to the South but I used to see those displaced people coming to the north from the southern areas suffering, so today I am so happy of this independence of a new State.”

For now as both North and South Sudan go through a transition it is hoped that, despite pending Comprehensive Peace Agreement which include a firm solution on Abyei and border demarcation among others, both countries will build up on past cultural relationships and common ties amongst people which have been developed and strengthened over the years.