SOUTH SUDAN / DORO CAMP

UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres traveled to Doro refugee camp in South Sudan over the weekend to appeal to the international community to help refugees diplaced by the recent fighting.

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:18
• Production Date: 9 January 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U120109c

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / DORO CAMP
TRT: 3.18
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 8 JANUARY 2012, DORO CAMP, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Various shots, people walking in Doro Camp
2. Various shots, camp
3. Various shots, children in the camp
4. Wide shot, Phebe and her family
5. Med shot, Phebe holding grandchildren
6. Med shot, more grandchildren
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Phebe Luiri Jabar, Blue Nile refugee:
“Me, my brother and daughter we would take hoes and dig out wild roots, put them on fire and feed the children to eat.”
8. Wide shot, women cueing at distribution centre
9. Med shot, women cueing at distribution centre
10. Med shot, women packing her supplies
11. Wide shot, High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterrez and others arriving and walking
12. Med shot, Guterrez being shown a blanket
13. Med shot, people lined up behind a wire fence
14. Various shots, women waiting for distribution
15. Wide shot, High Commissioner Antonio Guterrez
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterrez, High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The key message to convey today is that we are facing a humanitarian disaster of large proportions. We are facing in a country that has just emerged into an independent state with lots of problems and difficulties. And the support of the international community is now absolutely crucial.”
17. Various shots, refugees
18. Med shot, Phebe picking up a rock for grinding
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Phebe Luiri Jabar, Blue Nile refugee:
“They said, if we will not go find food, we will be afraid of the bombs. What can the children eat? We will go. If God say we will die there then we will die, and if God is willing us to come back we will come back.”
20. Med shot, children in camp
21. Med shot, children behind gate with plants

Storyline

Since last September almost 55, 000 people have crossed the border from Sudan to South Sudan.

Fighting erupted between the Sudanese Army and the SPLM - North – an armed faction. The population is caught in the middle so they flee to neighbouring countries.

Phebe Luiri Jabir came with her nine children and 12 grandchildren.

The bombings terrified her and her family. They walked for seven days to reach Doro Camp.

Along the way, they had to scrounge to find something to eat.

SOUNDBITE (English) Phebe Luiri Jabar, Blue Nile refugee:
“Me, my brother and daughter we would take hoes and dig out wild roots, put them on fire and feed the children to eat.”

Humanitarian agencies have been mobilized, UNHCR has sent in 17 airlifts with supplies – eight more are planned.

SOUND-UP (English)
one bucket…one blanket..etc.

Antonio Guterres, the High Commissioner for Refugees traveled to Doro camp to bring attention to the situation.

SOUND-UP (English) High Commissioner being shown the blankets.

Nearby hundreds wait their turn, some protected from the sun, others not.

Almost 90 percent of the new arrivals are women and children.

South Sudan is a new country, the newest. It is also one of the poorest.

The country is vast and there are few roads.

The High Commissioner made an appeal to the international community.

SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations (UNHCR):
“The key message to convey today is that we are facing a humanitarian disaster of large proportions. We are facing in a country that has just emerged into an independent state with lots of problems and difficulties. And the support of the international community is now absolutely crucial.”

The refugees say that their most pressing need is food and water.

Some families have decided to risk sending people back to the Blue Nile region to
get food.

Three of Phebe’s daughters went back.

SOUNDBITE (English) Phebe Luiri Jabar, Blue Nile refugee:
“They said, if we will not go find food, we will be afraid of the bombs. What can the children eat? We will go. If God say we will die there then we will die, and if God is willing us to come back we will come back.”

And so the refugees wait, more supplies are reaching them, and more are on the way. What is less sure is an early resolution to the lack of peace in their homeland.