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SUDAN / GUTERRES ANDALUS CAMP
STORY: SUDAN / GUTERRES ANDALUS CAMP
TRT: 2:50
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 JANUARY, ANDALUS SETTLEMENT, KHARTOUM, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, refugees at the Andalus Settlement
2. Med shot, Water donkey
3. Med shot, young child
4. Wide shot, children playing in the settlement
5. Med shot, High Commissioner arriving in the settlement
6. Wide shot, delegation of Southerners meeting the High Commissioner
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Southern Leader:
“The biggest issue is the train. It started in 2010. There are lot delays.”
8. Wide shot, crowd
9. Wide shot, household contents piled up at train station
10. Various shots, women at the station
11. Various shots, train and tracks
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Settlement resident:
“I have been here in this settlement for two years. If they come now to tell us let’s go, we are ready.”
13. Wide shot, High Commissioner talking to the crowd
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterrez, High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR:
“The first thing we will be trying is to have agreement between the government of Sudan and South Sudan to have a plan for moving the people, the vulnerable, the most vulnerable eventually going by plane and with road being the main other mechanism, but that will of course require organization, safety corridors and an adequate reception and integration in the Southern side.”
15. Various shots, Andalus settlement
It’s a dry and dusty place. The makeshift shelters offer little protection. Yet 245 families with ties to the South have been living here for a year, some for two, waiting to for a way home to South Sudan.
Conditions are grim. Water has to be paid for, disease is unavoidable. And there are no schools for the children.
In 13 states across Sudan, thousands of people are waiting for some help to get home. The High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres came to hear from some of those most affected.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Southern Leader:
“The biggest issue is the train. It started in 2010. There are lot delays.”
This community is to be moved by train. But at the train station belongings have been piled up for months and people wait there too.
The train is unreliable, it takes between 600 and 900 people at a time, security issues and derelict tracks means it departs every two or three months.
At that rate it could take years to get everyone home.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Settlement resident:
“I have been here in this settlement for two years. If they come now to tell us let’s go, we are ready.”
The High Commissioner said a solution has to be found.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The first thing we will be trying is to have agreement between the government of Sudan and South Sudan to have a plan for moving the people, the vulnerable, the most vulnerable eventually going by plane and with road being the main other mechanism, but that will of course require organization, safety corridors and an adequate reception and integration in the Southern side.”
Since the South voted for independence last July, things have changed for southerners living in Sudan.
Those who worked for the public sector lost their jobs, some in private business too.
As of yet, there is no agreement on how to document South Sudanese in Sudan, or for them to legalize their stay if they don’t want to go back.
UNHCR is offering to support both governments to move these people, so they can finally start their new lives in South Sudan.
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