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DR CONGO / CAR REFUGEES
STORY: DR CONGO / CAR REFUGEES
TRT: 2.12
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / LINGALA / NATS
DATELINE: 12 APRIL 2013, WOROBE. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
1. Wide shot, refugees standing around
2. Med shot, refugees standing around
3. Wide shot, refugees
4. Wide shot, refugees walking outside
5. Wide shot, refugees at food stands
6. Med shot, Laris Izungu mashing fruits
7. Close up, mashing fruits
8. Close up, hands in food
9. SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Laris Izungu Central African Republic:
“We don’t have food here. Before the food was enough, but due to increase in population the food is very little. We want food.”
10. Wide shot, Laris Izungu sitting with children
11. Med shot, young child
12. Wide shot, children gathering
13. Med shot, crying baby
14. Med shot, Aden Jerez washing
15. Med shot, children standing
16. SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Aden Jerez, refugee, Central African Republic:
“If our children here don’t have food, they will die. They are suffering from Kwashiork (malnutrition).”
17. Wide shot, Aden Jerez coming out of house carrying a baby
18. Close up, feet stepping out of plane
19. Med shot, High Commissioner Antonio Guterres stepping out of plane
20. Wide shot, High Commissioner Antonio Guterres walking with officals in camp
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, OHCHR:
“It is very important to underline that a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo that has so many tragic problems, the worst, if not the worst humanitarian tragedy in the world: 400.000 Congolese refugees abroad, 2.6 million internally displaced; a country that has suffered enormously with destruction, with massive displacement, with rape, with child recruitment. But with all these problems the DRC has opened its borders, the people has opened its huts, its hearts to brothers and sisters coming from the Central African Republic. It is generosity and the same solidarity with the people of the DRC and to the people of the Central African Republic.”
22. Wide shot, Antonio Guterres High Commissioner walking in camp
23. Wide shot, refugees in camp
24. Wide shot, Antonio Guterres High Commissioner walking
25. Wide shot, women refugees singing and following HC
Amid reports of continuing fighting inside the Central African Republic and the capital, Bangui, people have been crossing the Oubangui River and seeking shelter in DRC’s Equateur and Orientale provinces.
Since January, all along a 600 kilometres stretch of the river over 30,000 refugees have arrived.
Laris Izungu came earlier this year to Warobe refugee camp.
She says life in CAR was unbearable. She didn’t have enough to feed her children. Illness killed her husband after the war erupted. So she fled.
Here she goes to the forest collect wild fruits and roots to feed her five children.
SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Laris Izungu, refugee, Central African Republic:
“We don’t have food here. Before the food was enough, but due to increase in population the food is very little. We want food.”
She says she can’t think about going back to CAR….the situation is just too precarious. All her efforts now go to feeding her family.
The needs of the refugees are significant, and access to the area is difficult.
The numbers and the lack of facilities are a challenge.
UNHCR is working with the authorities in the DRC to provide assistance to this influx of refugees.
20 years old Aden Jerez arrived here two months ago, after war broke out in CAR.
Her husband drowned trying to run away from the some attackers.
Fearing for her children she came here for Warobe.
She says they are all safe now, but her children suffer from malnutrition
SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Aden Jerez, refugee, Central African Republic Refugee:
“If our children here don’t have food, they will die. They are suffering from Kwashiork (malnutrition).”
Sometimes, Aden has to go around to the neighbours to beg for food.
If she can’t get any, she does small jobs to get some.
UNHCR has been registering the refugees, distributing aid, setting up emergency shelters but the needs are pressing and challenging.
High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres travelled to Warobe to
witness the plight of the refugees first hand.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, OHCHR:
“It is very important to underline that a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo that has so many tragic problems, the worst, if not the worst humanitarian tragedy in the world: 400.000 Congolese refugees abroad, 2.6 million internally displaced; a country that has suffered enormously with destruction, with massive displacement, with rape, with child recruitment. But with all these problems the DRC has opened its borders, the people has opened its huts, its hearts to brothers and sisters coming from the Central African Republic. It is high time for the international community to show the same generosity and the same solidarity with the people of the DRC and to the people of the Central African Republic.”
A new camp for an initial 10,000 refugees is being created at Inke, in Equateur’s North Oubangui district.
UNHCR runs a major operation in Democratic Republic of the Congo, helping more than 2.5 million internally displaced people, mostly in the east and north, tens of thousands of refugees from other African countries. It has also helped repatriate refugees from Republic of Congo, Angola, Rwanda and Burundi.
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