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STORY: UN / SAHEL
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
25 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel:
“It is very alarming that youth and women in the Sahel, who constitute a vast majority of the population, are the targets of recruitment into radical movements. Up to 41 million youth under 25 years of age in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger alone face hopelessness and are at risk of radicalisation and migration.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel:
“If nothing is done to improve access to education, increase employment and integration opportunities for the youth, the Sahel, I am afraid, will become a hub for mass migration, and of recruitment and training of terrorist groups and individuals, which, as you know, will ultimately have grave consequences for global peace and security.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel:
“I would urge the Security Council to fully use existing mechanisms and expand their mandates to better monitor, report on and prevent the trafficking of drugs in the Sahel region. This trade finances terror and instability, and must be choked if our efforts are to be successful.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council
10. Wide shot, Sellassie at the Security Council stakeout
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sahel:
“Disenfranchised youth are easy target for these, for these groups, and so, we believe that the fight against terrorism should be multidimensional. On the short term evidently you need to reinforce security measures but in the mid and long term the solution, basically, is to prevent the youth from being interested, from being enticed into joining these groups.”
12. Zoom out, Sellassie walks away
The Secretary-General Special Envoy for the Sahel, Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, expressed alarm today (25 Nov) that youth and women in the Sahel “are the targets of recruitment into radical movements.”
Sellassie during her regular briefing to the Security Council said “41 million youth under 25 years of age in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger alone face hopelessness and are at risk of radicalisation and migration.”
The Special Envoy warned that “if nothing is done to improve access to education, increase employment and integration opportunities for the youth,” the region will become “a hub for mass migration, and of recruitment and training of terrorist groups and individuals.”
She urged the Council to “fully use existing mechanisms and expand their mandates to better monitor, report on and prevent the trafficking of drugs in the Sahel region” as “this trade finances terror and instability, and must be choked if our efforts are to be successful.”
Talking to reporters outside the Council, Sellassie said disenfranchised youth are an “easy target” for recruitment by terrorist groups.
She said “the fight against terrorism should be multidimensional. On the short term evidently you need to reinforce security measures but in the mid and long term the solution, basically, is to prevent the youth from being interested, from being enticed into joining these groups.”
