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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / FOOD SECURITY
STORY: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / FOOD SECURITY
TRT: 2.16
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14-15 JANUARY 2014, BOUAR/ BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
15 JANUARY 2014, WANTIGUERA VILLAGE, NEAR BOUAR, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
1. Wide shot, WFP food distribution site
2. Med shot, banner
3. Med shot, men carrying bags of grain
4. Various shots, food distribution
14 JANUARY 2014, BANGUI AIRPORT, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Brown, WFP Regional Director:
“We are delivering up country, notably in Bossangoa and Bozoum and Bouar. Is it easy? Absolutely not. We have daily security challenges, in the past few days we had several convoys stopped because of security but, we will continue, we will endeavour and we will reach these people.”
15 JANUARY 2014, WANTIGUERA VILLAGE, NEAR BOUAR, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
6. Wide shot, village
7. Pan right, Veronique Dobi, walking out of the house
8. Various shots, Dobi preparing food
14 JANUARY 2014, BANGUI AIRPORT, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Brown, WFP Regional Director:
“We are here, the UN World Food Programme working at the airport and delivering urgently needed food assistance to people who have fled violence in the capital. We won’t abandon these people.”
10. Various shots, large crowd receiving food aid at the airport
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is running out of food to distribute to growing numbers of displaced people in the Central African Republic because insecurity is blocking supply routes.
Thirty-eight WFP trucks carrying rice are currently blocked at the Central African Republic border with Cameroon, along with hundreds of other vehicles.
Following recent fighting, WFP and commercial truck drivers have refused to cross the border.
The impact on food supplies to the capital and the rest of the country is disastrous. WFP cereal stocks are close to exhausted and pulses too will soon run out. Suspending food distributions could lead to further tension.
WFP distributes yellow peas, maize, salt and oil to among others, the 100,000 displaced people in the overcrowded Bangui airport camp and some 20,000 displaced people mostly from Bouar.
SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Brown, WFP Regional Director:
“We are delivering up country, notably in Bossangoa and Bozoum and Bouar. Is it easy? Absolutely not. We have daily security challenges, in the past few days we had several convoys stopped because of security but, we will continue, we will endeavour and we will reach these people.”
Veronique Dobi spent more than a month living in the bush with her family eating only cassava. Here she prepares maize given to her by WFP.
SOUNDBITE (English) Denise Brown, WFP Regional Director:
“We are here, the UN World Food Programme working at the airport and delivering urgently needed food assistance to people who have fled violence in the capital. We won’t abandon these people.”
In the immediate term, WFP is prioritizing distributions at the airport, and plans further distributions in the north-western town of Bossangoa, but with reduced rations. Deliveries to other locations cannot be carried out until trucks can drive safely along routes and their movement to Bangui is secured.
WFP continues to urges all parties to the conflict to allow the safe and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel and the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance to people in need. WFP is neutral and delivers assistance only on the basis of need.
WFP is appealing for urgent funding to assist 1.25 million people in CAR who risk hunger because of displacement and the coming lean season. No new contributions have been secured since WFP’s emergency operation for CAR was launched on 1 January, appealing for nearly US$107 million.
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