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UNHCR / IDP CLIMATE CHANGE
STORY: UNHCR / IDP CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 2.29
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SOMALI / NATS
DATELINE: 14 JUNE 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – 2011, IFO CAMP, KENYA
1. Med shot, refugees walking
FILE – 2011, DOLLA ADO CAMP, ETHIOPIA
2. Wide shot, refugees at the camp
3. Wide shot, refugees walking at the camp
FILE – 2011, LOCATION UNKNOWN
4. Wide shot, refugee kids outside of their tent
5. Wide shot, tents
14 JUNE 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“There are more and more areas where life is not sustainable and people need to flee and these factors also trigger conflicts and conflict forces people to flee.”
FILE – 2011, LOCATION UNKNOWN
7. Wide shot, desert
8. Wide shot, refugee women gathering under tree
9. Close up, refugee woman
10. Wide shot, Somali refugees leaving
11. Wide shot, refugees sitting on the street
FILE – 2011, GALKAYO, SOMALIA
12. Various shots, Tukaay building her tent
13. Wide shot, Tukaay entering her tent
14. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Tukaay Siyaadow Isaak, internally displaced Somali woman:
“Our livelihood depends on the rain. And the rain has stopped. The livestock and whatever else we had died because of the drought. How can we survive? We ran for our own survival.”
FILE – 2011, LOCATION UNKNOWN
15. Med shot, refugee kid drinking water
16. Med shot, mother giving water to her baby
17. Close up, baby drinking water
FILE – 2011, DOLLA ADO CAMP, ETHIOPIA
18. Wide shot, Dolla Ado Camp
19. Wide shot, refugees walking around the camp
20. Wide shot, Safiala giving water to her kid
21. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Safiala Abdullahi, Somali refugee:
“I became sick on the way and therefore the child had nothing to eat because I had no breast milk, so he died of hunger and dehydration.”
FILE – DADAAB CAMP, KENYA
22. Tracking shot, Dadaab camp
23. Aerial shot, Dadaab camp
14 JUNE 2012, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think there is a clear link between climate change and the worsening of the displacement problems in the world and I think it is very important for the world to come together and to try to respond to this challenge.”
FILE – 2011, LOCATION UNKNOWN
25. Med shot, kid sleeping
26. Med shot, kid crying
FILE – 2011, DADAAB CAMP, KENYA
27. Various shots, refugee woman walking with her children
FILE – 2011, LOCATION UNKNOWN
28. Wide shot, refugees waiting
In 2010 and 2011, the world witnessed a mass exodus of people from Somalia.
Thousands either moved within the country, or outside the borders to Kenya and Ethiopia.
The numbers were alarming: almost 300,000.
Somalia had been at war for decades, but now there was a severe drought. The combination was lethal. The drought killed livestock, destroyed crops, cutting off livelihoods.
At the height of the crisis UNHCR estimated that a quarter of Somalia's 7.5 million people were either outside the country or internally displaced.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“There are more and more areas where life is not sustainable and people need to flee and these factors also trigger conflicts and conflict forces people to flee.”
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, the UN University, London School of Economics and Bonn University recently carried out research on climate change and mobility in the Horn of Africa.
It found that insecurity reduced people’s ability to cope with severe changes in climate. The result: they were forced to move.
Tukaay left her village in central Somalia with her eight children. They travelled over 600 kilometers to find food and a semblance of peace in Galkayo in Somalia’s Puntland region.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Tukaay Siyaadow Isaak, internally displaced Somali woman:
“Our livelihood depends on the rain. And the rain has stopped. The livestock and whatever else we had died because of the drought. How can we survive? We ran for our own survival.”
The UNHCR-supported study points to a pattern: that climate extremes and insecurity increase displacement both within and across borders.
Safiala and her seven children were among the surge of Somali refugees to Ethiopia in 2011. She found safety and food, but her journey was tragic.
SOUNDBITE (Somali) Safiala Abdullahi, Somali refugee:
“I became sick on the way and therefore the child had nothing to eat because I had no breast milk, so he died of hunger and dehydration.”
In Kenya, Somalis fleeing drought and violence swelled the numbers in Dadaab camp to nearly half a million.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think there is a clear link between climate change and the worsening of the displacement problems in the world and I think it is very important for the world to come together and to try to respond to this challenge.”
UN and aid agencies warn that the Somalia scenario is one that can easily be repeated – with dire consequences.
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