MALI / DISPLACED

Hundreds of Malian civilians fleeing fighting in the north of the country arrive in the capital, Bamako. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:18
• Production Date: 18 April 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: MALI
• MAMS Id: U120418c

Description

STORY: MALI / DISPLACED
TRT: 2.18
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: WOLO / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 APRIL 2012, BAMAKO, MALI

Shotlist

1. Various shots, street scene in Bamako
2. Various shots, Bamako road with motorcycle drivers
3. Med shot, bus station, bus arriving
4. Med shot, people getting off the bus
5. SOUNDBITE (Wolof) Sadio Maiga, displaced Senegalese-Malian:
“The journey was difficult. We were on foot and then boat until the motor failed. Then the boatman had to paddle. We were afraid when we ran into some rebels, but they did not see us. It was night. In Timbuktu we saw them armed.”
6. Med shot, people in the bus
7. Med shot, Mohamed Assalia with his son
8. Close up, Mohamed Assalia with his son
9. Tracking shot, view from the bus
10. Med shot, Ada Baby talking with his friend
11. Close up, Ada's hand serving tea
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Ada Baby:
“The rebellion that is taking place today has completely shaken us up because we have all our relatives there, father, mother, brother and sister who are living in uncertainty. They don’t even know where to go. ”
People in the bus station
13. Med shot, people arriving
14. Med shot, men loading off his luggages
15. Med shot, People getting off the bus

Storyline

Bamako, the capital of Mali is usually home to over two million people. But a population explosion looms large over the city as hundreds of displaced northerners arrive daily.

At this central bus station, the pattern is clear. People are escaping the north which has been in the hands of Tuareg rebels for more than a month.

SOUNDBITE (Wolof) Sadio Maiga, displaced Senegalese-Malian:
“The journey was difficult. We were on foot and then boat until the motor failed. Then the boatman had to paddle. We were afraid when we ran into some rebels, but they did not see us. It was night. In Timbuktu we saw them armed.”

Mohamed Assalia works in Bamako. He went to get his wife and son in Gao, a city that has fallen into rebels hands.

Others worry that relatives cannot do the same. Ada Baby has not heard from his family since the troubles began.

SOUNDBITE (French) Ada Baby:
“The rebellion that is taking place today has completely shaken us up because we have all our relatives there, father, mother, brother and sister who are living in uncertainty. They don’t even know where to go. ”

Last week, an interim President was sworn in, bringing some measure of calm to the southern part of Mali.

And so the situation remains precarious particularly for the displaced over 200,000 people have been uprooted.

Many are without income or shelter having left everything behind.