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NIGER/ MALI REFUGEES
STORY: NIGER/ MALI REFUGEES
TRT: 2.25
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: TAMASHEL / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11, 15, 16 FEBRUARY 2012 GAOUDEL, NIGER
11, 15, 16 FEBRUARY 2012 GAOUDEL, NIGER
1. Wide shot, woman walking through settlement
2. Various shots, Group of refugees in makeshift camp
3. Wide shot, Zoulfa Malian refugee and her daughter with donkeys
4. Wide shot, Zoulfa walking into her makeshift shelter
5. Close up, Zoulfa's children under shelter
6. SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Zoulfa Malian, refugee:
“We are nomads so we move and live in different places. Where we were, in our village, armed men attacked and came to steal our belongings. We decided to leave where we were staying. We left and settled in a nomad camp, but the attacks continued. At night the men came back. They took our possessions and some of our livestock. The situation was untenable so we decided to leave and cross the border into Niger. We left many of our things behind.”
7. Wide shot, Zoulfa's daughter carrying water
8. Wide shot, Zoulfa unloading Jeri cans from donkey
9. Wide shot, woman feeding her goats
10. Wide shot, makeshift shelter
11. Med shot, Zoulfa and her children sitting under tent
12. Close up, Zoulfa's sick baby
13. SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Zoulfa Malian, refugee:
“We need shelter, so I am asking for mats to sleep on. It is hard to sleep on the ground. We also need kitchen utensils, medicines for my daughter, she is sick. We need clothes, shoes and milk.”
11, 15, 16 FEBRUARY 2012, NIAMEY AIRPORT, NIGER
14. Wide shot, cargo plane at night
15. Wide shot, tents inside cargo plane
16. SOUND UP (English) Pilot:
"There are 1500 tents here."
17. Various shots, offloading plane
11, 15, 16 FEBRUARY 2012 GAOUDEL, NIGER
18. Med shot, Zoulfa's children under shelter
19. Close up, Zoulfa's baby with scars on his forehead sleeping
20. Med shot, Zoulfa's family under the tent
It is an unlikely place to come and find safety desolate and distant…this is Gaoudel, northern Niger.
In a matter of weeks, hundreds of families have crossed the border from Mali to Niger, all escaping from the fighting between the Government and the Tuaregs.
These are some of the world’s newest refugees.
Zoulfa and her four children are among them she took a few her belongings and goats and went in search of refuge.
SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Zoulfa Malian, refugee:
“We are nomads so we move and live in different places. Where we were, in our village, armed men attacked and came to steal our belongings. We decided to leave where we were staying. We left and settled in a nomad camp, but the attacks continued. At night the men came back. They took our possessions and some of our goats. The situation was untenable so we decided to leave and cross the border into Niger. We left many things behind.”
The living conditions here are harsh. Clean water is hours away.
Refugees have to walk kilometres to collect it from the Niger River.
The refugees’ shelters are flimsy…poor protection from the heat of the day and cold of the night. Zoulfa says her daughter has had a fever for days.
SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Zoulfa Malian, refugee:
“We need shelter, so I am asking for mats to sleep on. It is hard to sleep on the ground. We also need kitchen utensils, medicines for my daughter, she is sick. We need clothes, shoes and milk.’
UNHCR has sent in two airlift flights transporting supplies for the refugees, tents, blankets and sleeping matts.
The tents will be set up in the future refugee site in Ouallam, an hour north of Niger’s capital.
There the living conditions for refugees will improve. And being further inland will also ensure greater safety from the threats they fled.
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