ETHIOPIA / SUDANESE REFUGEES

Zeneib Mussa was living in her husband's village in Sudan's Blue Nile state when it was attacked. She lost three brothers and fled, enduring tremendous hardship on the four-month journey to Ethiopia with her children. UNHCR 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:05
• Production Date: 10 February 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: ETHIOPIA; SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U120210d

Description

STORY: ETHIOPIA / SUDANESE REFUGEES
TRT: 1.05
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 6-7 FEBRUARY 2012, ASSOSA, ETHIOPIA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Zeneib walking towards the camera
2. Wide shot, Zeneib and her children seated at a table at the Adamazine transit centre in Ethiopia
3. Wide shot, Zeneib and her children at transit centre
4. Close shot, hands of UNHCR staff writing on registration documents
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zeneib Mussa, Sudanese refugee:
“I panicked because of the shelling and the bombings I heard.”
6. Med shot, Zeneib and her family eating rice
7. Close shot, Zeneib's children eating
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zeneib Mussa, Sudanese refugee:
“It was very hard because of the mountains, climbing steep mountains, it was very difficult.”
9. Wide shot, IOM bus arriving with refugees
10. Close shot, Zeneib's belongings
11. Wide shot, Zeneib's family outside under a tree
12. Wide shot, UNHCR reception centre
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zeneib Mussa, Sudanese refugee:
“I have no option but to wait here for my husband. He will come back and take care of us. I have to stay and if he does not come back I will have to find a way out.”
14. Various shots, refugee camp

Storyline

Zeneib Mussa is originally from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, and was living in her husband’s village Blue Nile State, until it was attacked.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zeneib Mussa, Sudanese refugee:
“I panicked because of the shelling and the bombings I heard.”

Zeneib, who lost three brothers in the attack, took her children and fled. They walked for four months looking for refuge.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zeneib Mussa, Sudanese refugee:
“It was very hard because of the mountains, climbing steep mountains, it was very difficult.”

At the border, a bus from the International Organization of Migration (IOM) picked the family up and took them to the Adamazine Transit Centre in Ethiopia.

Zeneib and her children are among tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees who have fled ongoing fighting between the government and militants since last September.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zeneib Mussa, Sudanese refugee:
“I have no option but to wait here for my husband. He will come back and take care of us. I have to stay and if he does not come back I will have to find a way out.”

The Adamazine Transit Centre was intended to be a temporary facility, but the scale of the influx has kept it open. Today, there are over 20,000 refugees in this area.