SOUTH SUDAN / JAMMAM CAMP

UNHCR is providing humanitarian aid to refugees arriving at Jammam Camp in South Sudan who have fled from fighting in the Blue Nile state. More than 80,000 Sudanese refugees have been displaced by fighting since June between Sudan's army and SPLM-North rebels. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:36
• Production Date: 11 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: U120111g

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / JAMMAM CAMP
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 6 JANUARY 2012, JAMMAM CAMP, MALAKAL AIRPORT, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

6 JANUARY 2012, JAMMAM CAMP, SOUTH SUDAN

1. Various shots, refugees arriving on a tractor to Jammam Camp
2. Various shots, refugees descending from the tractor
3. Med shot, refugee children waiting
4. Various shots, Nejua Mahadi Yusuf cooking
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nejua Mahadi Yusuf, Blue Nile Refugee:
“We came because of the war. They burned our home and did not allow to take anything and we run away. We run away in the night. “
6. Various shots, women carrying firewood

6 JANUARY 2012, MALAKAL AIRPORT, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN

7. Various shots, unloading supplies from cargo plane at Malakal Airport
8. Various shot, Cargo plane in Malakal Airport

6 JANUARY 2012, JAMMAM CAMP, SOUTH SUDAN

9. Tilt up, Nejua’s picks up her baby
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nejua Mahadi Yusuf, Blue Nile Refugee:
“I was pregnant and I had my baby in the middle of the night. My baby has never known a home. We are sleeping under the trees and we are going from one tree to the other.”
11. Various shots, Nejua and her husband receiving supplies
12. Wide shot, refugees arriving
13. Med shot, baby coming down from wagon

Storyline

Across the northern eastern border of South Sudan, the number of refugees grows.

Jammed into this tractor and wagon are some of those fleeing the Sudanese Blue Nile area.
Their odyssey began last September. That’s when the bombings started.

Initially they found refuge near the volatile border area in South Sudan, but here too they felt unsafe.
So they left to come further inland to Jammam Camp, set up by UNHCR only a month ago.

Nejua Mahadi Yusuf has been on the moved for seven months hiding and walking in search of safety for her family.

She said the bombings terrified her.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nejua Mahadi Yusuf, Blue Nile refugee:
“We came because of the war. They burnt our homes and did not allow us to take anything so we run away. We run away in the night.”

South Sudan has only been a country for six months, and after decades of war it lacks roads, transport, and food, most of which is imported.

At the nearest airport in Malakal, a day’s drive away, they are unloading supplies coming from Dubai and Nairobi. To date UNHCR has sent in 17 flights, another 10 are expected in the next few weeks.

Nejua Mahadi Yusuf says their needs are great. Her daughter was born in the bush, she explainsand has known nothing else.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nejua Mahadi Yusuf, Blue Nile refugee:
“I was pregnant and I had my baby in the middle of the night. My baby has never known a home. We are sleeping under the trees and we are going from one tree to the other.”

These supplies will provide Nejua’s family with some protection, but food and water will continue to be a challenge, as will the numbers of new arrivals.

Across South Sudan over 80,000 people have crossed into the country with the latest wave of insecurity.

The High Commissioner for Refugees earlier this week made an appeal for massive assistance to help avert a humanitarian disaster that looms large over the region.