CAR / DISPLACED AIRPORT

More than forty thousand displaced people took refuge at the Mpoko International Airport after armed groups clashed in the country’s capital Bangui. UNHCR

 

UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:32
• Production Date: 30 December 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• MAMS Id: U131230d

Description

STORY: CAR / DISPLACED AIRPORT
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SANGO/ NATS

DATELINE: 22 DECEMBER 2013, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Shotlist

1. Various shots, newborn with her mother
2. Various shots, IDP camp at Bangui airport.
3. SOUNDBITE (Sango), Feitouana Ornella IDP:
“It is so difficult to find food here. When I get food I eat only once (a day) and if don’t eat I don’t get milk to breastfeed. Its so hard to be here.”
4. Various shots, camp life
5. Various shots, children eating from one plate
6. Various shots, camp life
7. SOUNDBITE (Sango), Christelle Kadena IDP:
“I have seen so many people die from lack of medication here. If we were received well no one would die. I don’t know what will happen to me, am not sure I will give birth to my child well in this conditions. I wish I was at my home.”
8. Various shots, sick boy with his grandmother.
9. SOUNDBITE (Sango), Germaine Yassipou, IDP:
“There is no medicine here. Because I am a Catholic, I just have to pray and put this rosary on my grandson hoping God will heal him.”
10. Various shots, children and women at the camp.
11. Close up, mother breast feeding
12. Med shot, mother breast feeding

Storyline

More than forty thousand displaced people took refuge at the Mpoko International Airport after armed groups clashed in the country’s capital Bangui.

Feitouana Ornella, fled her home to save herself and her unborn child. Not long after arriving at the shelter at the Mpoko airport she gave a birth to a baby-girl Debra.

SOUNDBITE (Sango) Feitouana Ornella IDP:
“It is so difficult to find food here. When I get food I eat only once (a day) and if don’t eat I don’t get milk to breastfeed. Its so hard to be here.”

The UN refugees agency (UNHCR) and its partners have been distributing tents, blankets, sleeping mats and other relief items to ease the suffering of the people in the displaced sites. Counselling is also provided to those who are traumatized.

Medications and health service however, are not easy to come by. Nineteen- year- old Christelle Kadena is pregsnant with her first child. She is very worried about giving birth here.

SOUNDBITE (Sango), Christelle Kadena IDP:
“I have seen so many people die from lack of medication here. If we were received well no one would die. I don’t know what will happen to me, am not sure I will give birth to my child well in this conditions. I wish I was at my home.”

Six- year-old Armand Fondo has malaria. His grandmother has no medication to help him.

SOUNDBITE (Sango), Germaine Yassipou, IDP:
“There is no medicine here. Because I am a Catholic, I just have to pray and put this rosary on my grandson hoping God will heal him.”

The situation remains volatile in Bangui. Armed clashes and sporadic gunfire were reported from Monday afternoon until early on Tuesday, as armed elements resisted disarmament by French troops mandated by the UN Security Council to stabilize the country.

The newly displaced told UNHCR staff that they are hoping disarmament can take place in their neighbourhoods so that they can return home.

More than 710,000 people have been uprooted within the country since the crisis started a year ago. This includes 214,000 internally displaced people in the capital Bangui.