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STORY: UN / BOHO HARAM
TRT: 02:29
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Close up, United Nations flag
27 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Feltman, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs:
“The Boko Haram crisis has devastated the region’s economy. Economic growth has dropped sharply with the decline in the price of oil and other commodities. Decreasing resources affects the states' ability to deliver on basic social services and to pay the salaries of security forces and civil servants. Insecurity has disrupted trade routes between Chad and Nigeria interrupting the supply of basic goods and resulting in price hikes. Youth unemployment is at a worrisome high, providing recruitment ground for Boko Haram. We urge that military operations be complemented with development interventions, including to address the effects of climate change.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Feltman, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs:
“A military approach, while essential, will not bring to an end the Boko Haram threat. Affected countries must tackle not only the humanitarian consequences but also the root causes that contributed to the emergence of the group including the social, economic and political grievances of marginalised communities. The Special Representatives to Central Africa and for West Africa and the Sahel continue to encourage regional interlocutors to address the Boko Haram crisis holistically and beyond an exclusively security lens.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O'Brien, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Violence and brutality to the most heinous, barbaric and unconscionable extent, almost, unimaginable, as perpetrated by Boko Haram is resulting in massive forced displacement, human rights violations, severe disruptions to livelihoods, and unprecedented humanitarian needs in a region that was already endemically and deeply vulnerable.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen O'Brien, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We have no time to lose: the lean season, which puts millions in this region at real risk of hunger and malnutrition each year across the Lake Chad Basin, has already started. If we do no act now, the human suffering will only get more extreme.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. Wide shot, Security Council
Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council today (27 July) that the Boko Haram crisis has “devastated” the Lake Chad region’s economy.”
Feltman said that “economic growth has dropped sharply with the decline in the price of oil and other commodities. Decreasing resources affects the states' ability to deliver on basic social services and to pay the salaries of security forces and civil servants. Insecurity has disrupted trade routes between Chad and Nigeria interrupting the supply of basic goods and resulting in price hikes. Youth unemployment is at a worrisome high, providing recruitment ground for Boko Haram.”
The Under Secretary-General stressed that military operations “be complemented with development interventions, including to address the effects of climate change.”
Feltman, who has just returned from a visit to Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Chad, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, said “a military approach, while essential, will not bring to an end the Boko Haram threat.”
Affected countries, he noted “must tackle not only the humanitarian consequences but also the root causes that contributed to the emergence of the group including the social, economic and political grievances of marginalised communities.”
Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien for his part told the Council that “violence and brutality to the most heinous, barbaric and unconscionable extent, almost, unimaginable, as perpetrated by Boko Haram is resulting in massive forced displacement, human rights violations, severe disruptions to livelihoods, and unprecedented humanitarian needs in a region that was already endemically and deeply vulnerable.”
O’Brien said “we have no time to lose: the lean season, which puts millions in this region at real risk of hunger and malnutrition each year across the Lake Chad Basin, has already started. If we do no act now, the human suffering will only get more extreme.”
Although there has been some progress in the fight against Boko Haram as a result of increased military cooperation between Nigeria and its neighbours, the group has resorted to more attacks on soft targets, such as internally displaced persons camps, and use of suicide bombers, who are frequently women or girls.
According to OCHA’s 11 July Crisis Update on the Lake Chad basin, there are 9.2 million people in need across the region and 2.6 million people have been displaced. Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, Nigeria, hosts 1.4 million displaced persons, which has more than doubled the city’s population. Improved humanitarian access in Borno State has revealed emergency levels of malnutrition and famine-like conditions in 15 displaced persons camps with an estimated 275,000 people.
