SOUTH SUDAN / BENTIU UPDATE

A United Nations mission (UNMISS) delegation lead by Deputy Chief Raisedon Zenenga travelled to Bentiu over the weekend. The town was recaptured by government forces on January 9 after more than three weeks of fierce fighting with anti–government forces loyal to former Vice-President  Riek Machar. UNMISS

 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:29
• Production Date: 27 January 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U140127g

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / BENTIU UPDATE
TRT: 01:29
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ ARABIC/ NATS

DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Med shot, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (DSRSG) Raisedon Zenenga being welcomed by the state coordinator for Unity state
2. Wide shot, Zenenga and the delegation walking through the camp
3. Med shot, internally displaced women holding white flag as symbol of peace
4. Wide shot, Zenenga and his delegation addressing the internally displace women
5. Med shot, internaly displaced women holding white flag as symbol of peace
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aluel Wal Magor, 40 year-old mother of nine:
“We are women of peace. What had happen in south Sudan we totally disagree with it and we are calling on every south Sudanese holding weapon there to put down their weapons and make peace so that our children can return to their residents.”
7. Wide shot, Zenenga and the delegation walking through the camp
8. Med shot, Zenenga and the delegation with the internally displaced people
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Raisedon Zenenga Deputy Chief of UNMISS:
“And when fighting stops, there will be no more deaths and we can now begin the process of creating an environment that allows everybody to return home, to reconcile and to start re-building.”
10. Med shot, woman cooking
11. Wide shot, children playing

Storyline

A United Nations mission (UNMISS)delegation lead by Deputy Chief Raisedon Zenenga travelled to Bentiu over the weekend. The town was recaptured by government forces on January 9 after more than three weeks of fierce fighting with anti–government forces loyal to former Vice-President Riek Machar.

Zenenga and the 13-member UNMISS delegation visited the IDP camp inside the Mission’s compound that housed 10,000 people at the peak of the conflict in the Unity State. Currently, there are 2,500 civilians here.

Women were holding white flags aimed at promoting an open a dialogue among Unity State’s various ethnic communities.

Forty-year-old mother of nine, Aluel Wal Magor, was amond them.

“We are women of peace what had happen in south Sudan we totally disagree with it and we are calling on every south Sudanese holding weapon there to put down their weapons and make peace so that our children can return to their residents” – said Magor.

Zenenga welcomed the peace initiative and discussed the signing of a cessation of hostilities agreement in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, by representatives of President Salva Kiir Mayardit and former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny.

“And when fighting stops, there will be no more deaths and we can now begin the process of creating an environment that allows everybody to return home, to reconcile and to start re-building.” – said Zenenga.

Civilians fled when word spread that the government was planning to retake Benitu, Dozens of homes and businesses were razed to the ground when anti-government forces withdrew from the Unity State capital.