SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL AMOS 1

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos met with internally displaced people (IDP) at the UNMISS protection camp in Malakal, South Sudan, as warnings mounted of a growing humanitarian crisis. UNMISS

 

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:27
• Production Date: 28 January 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U140128d

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL AMOS 1
TRT: 1:27
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: JANUARY 28, 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

1.Wide shot, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos walking with UN officials
2. Med shot, group of women in protection of civilians’ area
3. Med shot, Valerie Amos talking to displaced people
4. Wide shot, crowd
5. Med shot, Valerie Amos talking to an elderly woman
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Amos,Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We will have to guarantee people’s security and I think that is not going to be enough. When I talked to people they said they had completely lost faith, they actually wanted to leave all together, either go to other parts of South Sudan or leave the country even when I said we need to work on the reconciliation, we need all the communities to come together, leadership to come together, we need to make sure the people’s safety and security is guaranteed, even then people were not convinced.”
7. Pan, shaking hands with displaced woman
8. Med shot, children
9. Med shot, women at water point
10. Wide shot, visiting the hospital

Storyline

Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, met today (28 Jan) with internally displaced people (IDP) at the UNMISS protection camp in Malakal, South Sudan, as warnings mounted of a growing humanitarian crisis.

During her visit to the internally displaced people in Upper Nile State capital Malakal, she said that people have lost their faith and wanted to leave the state they leave in or the country.

Talking to journalists, Amos said “people are very fearful, not wanting to come out and saying to us that they want to be relocated to another country,” and added “there is a desperate need here for reconciliation efforts, for people to be guaranteed of their safety and security.”

She noted "we will have to guarantee people’s security and I think that is not going to be enough. When I talked to people they said they had completely lost faith, they actually wanted to leave all together, either go to other parts of South Sudan or leave the country even when I said we need to work on the reconciliation, we need all the communities to come together, leadership to come together, we need to make sure the people’s safety and security is guaranteed, even then people were not convinced.”

Amos, who said she was struck by the absolute devastation in the town, visited the teaching hospital where she said IDPs were living in “in unbelievably dire circumstances”, as well as the UNMISS bases, where an estimated 27,000 people are taking shelter.

During her three-day stay, she will meet with government officials and aid workers in a bid to boost relief to the troubled young nation, where thousands have been killed and over 700,000 people have fled their homes in over six weeks of violence.