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STORY: UN / SUDAN – SOUTH SUDAN
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
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1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
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2. Pan left, Valerie Amos walks up to the stakeout position
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3. Close up, camera
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We’ve seen significant interconnections between the humanitarian situations between the two countries: deepening conflict in Darfur, continuing deterioration of the humanitarian situation in South Sudan, refugee outflows, and worrying food insecurity across the region.”
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5. Close up, reporter’s hands typing
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We have already heard that the famine early warning system network has forecast that the emergency levels of food insecurity are likely to persist among the internally displaced and host communities in SPLA north controlled areas of South Kordofan between now and September. I warned the Council that if aerial bombardment continues to disrupt agricultural activities, we can expect the impact to extend well beyond the harvest in September.”
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7. Close up, notepad
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I also warned the Council that if we don’t take urgent action now, we will see a major humanitarian crisis unfolding in South Sudan with respect to food insecurity and the possibility of famine.”
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9. Close up, notepad
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We need the violence to stop. We need the Council and anyone with any kind of political influence to use that influence on the parties. We need to significantly scale up our operations –both in terms of food and nutrition security-. If you look back to Somalia in 2011, we had the warning signs and then the situation deteriorated extremely rapidly. That is what I most fear in South Sudan right now.
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11. Close up, reporter typing mobile phone
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“My greatest fear is that because of the conflict, because the agreement –that was reached between the two parties-, that agreement is being broken every day and the fighting continuing, that we will see a very quick deterioration of the food security situation with the potential for a famine being declared very soon.”
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11. Close up, camera
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12. Wide shot, Valerie Amos walks away
The United Nations top humanitarian official today (16 July) told the Security Council that the situation in Sudan and South Sudan continues to deteriorate for hundreds of thousands of people in both countries.
Speaking to the press outside the Security Council, Valerie Amos said “we've seen significant interconnections between the humanitarian situations between the two countries: deepening conflict in Darfur, continuing deterioration of the humanitarian situation in South Sudan, refugee outflows, and worrying food insecurity across the region.”
She underlined “we have already heard that the famine early warning system network has forecast that the emergency levels of food insecurity are likely to persist among the internally displaced and host communities in SPLA north controlled areas of South Kordofan between now and September.
Amos added “I warned the Council that if aerial bombardment continues to disrupt agricultural activities, we can expect the impact to extend well beyond the harvest in September.”
She also warned the Council that “if we don’t take urgent action now, we will see a major humanitarian crisis unfolding in South Sudan with respect to food insecurity and the possibility of famine.”
Asked about what actions are need she Amos said “we need the violence to stop. We need the Council and anyone with any kind of political influence to use that influence on the parties. We need to significantly scale up our operations.”
She recalled the humanitarian situation in Somalia in 2011, when after the warning signs the humanitarian situation deteriorated extremely rapid.
Asked about her fears concerning the humanitarian situation, she said “my greatest fear is that because of the conflict, because the agreement –that was reached between the two parties-, that agreement is being broken every day and the fighting continuing, that we will see a very quick deterioration of the food security situation with the potential for a famine being declared very soon.”
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