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SOUTH SUDAN / RETURNEES
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / RETURNEES
TRT: 2.54
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 8 JANUARY 2012, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, IOM truck
2. Wide shot, people in front of IOM truck
3. Wide shot, people receiving baggage
4. Close up, pushing rickshaw
5. Wide shot, pushing rickshaw
6. Med shot, man unloading baggage
7. Wide shot, people receiving baggage
8. Wide shot, truck during distribution
9. Wide shot, group of people
10. Close up, Faiza with her family
11. Close up, Faiza's family
12. Med shot, Faiza's family
13. Med shot, mother and her child
14. Med shot, Faiza cooking
15. Wide shot, Faiza cooking
16. Med shot, Faiza sitting with her family
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fayzia Erneo, South Sudanese returnee:
“I am not worried at all I am comfortable. I am not scared. I am happy and comfortable. I have my family. “
18. Wide shot, IOM person and bus people getting off
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wanna More, UNHCR, South Sudan:
“The challenge we are facing is that since these people coming not only with their own belongings, they are also bringing their entire household items together with them.”
20. Close up, David waiting for his bags
21. Wide shot, David getting his baggage
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) David Mesini Brenke, South Sudanese returnee:
“I am moving back. It has been said that anyone must go back to his country to raise his country up.”
23. Med shot, man unloading baggage from truck
24. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) David Mesini Brenke, South Sudanese returnee:
“I have five sons. They are coming back. They are still there but I want to go make a place. To see a place, a place under a mango tree , when I will see a place for them, then I go and get them.”
25. Various shots, groups of returnees gathering
Since South Sudan gained its independence on 9 July 2011, thousands of Southerners have made their way back to their homeland brining with them everything they own.
Fayzia Erneo is 30 years. She was born in Sudan, but her family has southern roots, so she, her mother, father, siblings have all come home.
They travelled by car and then by barge down the Nile. All in all it took them six months to get to Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
Still Fayzia is enthusiastic to be here,
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fayzia Erneo, South Sudanese returnee:
“I am not worried at all I am comfortable. I am not scared. I am happy and comfortable. I have my family.”
The moving process is painfully slow, and transport is poor, limited and costly.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wanna More, UNHCR, South Sudan:
“The challenge we are facing is that since these people coming not only with their own belongings, they are also bringing their entire household items together with them.”
David Mesini Brenke lived in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital for fifty-one years. He worked as a loom fixer and then a carpenter.
He says, independence for South Sudan meant it was time to come home.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Mesini Brenke, South Sudanese returnee:
“I am moving back. It has been said that anyone must go back to his country to raise his country up.”
For him too the trip was long and arduous. But he is here to prepare the way for his sons to also return.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Mesini Brenke, South Sudanese returnee:
“I have five sons. They are coming back. They are still there but I want to go make a place. To see a place, a place under a mango tree, when I will see a place for them, then I go and get them.”
For many of these families, there is much to do. They have to find a place to live, some in villages, and other in Juba. They will have to build homes and find work.
Supplies are expensive and often hard to come by, and many services, such as paved roads, schools and hospitals don’t even exist yet.
But despite the long waits and challenges ahead the enthusiasm of the returnees seems .
They are here to stay, and happily so.
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