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UNHCR / 99 MILLION CONFLICT APPEAL
STORY: UNHCR / 99 MILLION CONFLICT APPEAL
TRT: 1.44
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 9 JANUARY 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, people standing around by water tank
2. Med shot, people standing around by water tank
3. Med shot, girl with hands on head standing by camp
4. Med shot, people waking around camp
5. Close up, feet walking in busy street
6. Wide shot, trucks and people walking around
7. Wide shot, baby walking by sitting women
8. Wide shot, children within the camp
9. Wide shot, camp
10. Med shot, children within the streets of the camp
11. Med shot, old woman
12. Med shot, young woman
13. Wide shot, camp through barb wire
14. Wide shot, camp through barb wire
15. Med shot, baby sitting
16. Wide shot, camp
The Untied Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) appealed today (10 Jan) for (USD) 99 million to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the worsening humanitarian crises in South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
The money is needed for assistance to those who fled their countries as well as to those who are displaced internally.
The $99 million comprises $59 million for the South Sudan and $40.2 million for the Central African Republic, to cover the relief efforts until the end of March 2014.
It follows a joint appeal on 31 December by OCHA for $209 million for South Sudan and a 24 December 100 Day Plan for CAR covering $152.2 million in immediate support needs.
Today’s appeals reflect the worsening situations in both cases, with hundreds of thousands of people now affected.
In South Sudan, the situation continued to deteriorate. Fighting has spread to seven of the country’s 10 states. The number of South Sudanese fleeing to neighboring countries has rapidly increased, and totals some 43,000 people.
As of Wednesday, 32,443 South Sudanese had arrived in Uganda, 4,754 in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, some 6,000 in Ethiopia and at least several hundred in Sudan, with unconfirmed reports of thousands having fled there. Uganda is now seeing between 4,000 and 5,000 South Sudanese arriving every day.
Inside South Sudan itself, some 232,000 people have been forced to flee their homes and are now displaced internally. This includes 60,500 people sheltering at 10 UN bases.
UNHCR is basing its appeal on existing numbers of displaced and projections of additional displacement between now and April. It anticipates that numbers of refugees could rise to 125,000 and that the number of people displaced within South Sudan could reach 400,000.
Emergency operations include registering, sheltering and protecting refugees; providing supplies to displaced people, designing and managing camps, as well as protecting the most vulnerable among them.
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