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STORY: NIGERIA / BOKO HARAM CHILDREN
TRT: 01:53
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: KANURI / NATS
DATELINE: 10-12 AUGUST 2016, MUNA CAMP, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA / 10-12 AUGUST 2016 BANKI, NIGERIA
10-12 AUGUST 2016, MUNA CAMP, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
1. Wide shot, Muna Camp
2. Wide shot, pan to right, Muna Camp
3. Wide shot, man walks by in the camp
4. Wide shot, two girls with jerry cans walk by
5. Wide shot, woman washes clothes in lake
6. Med shot, Babintu Balla fills up jerry can with water
7. Close up, Babintu Balla fills up jerry can with water
8. Various shots, Babintu Balla and family eating
9. SOUNDBITE (Kanuri), Babintu Balla, Displaced Child:
“When I escaped from Boko Haram, all I could think about was the people I had left behind, especially my grandfather. I thought Boko Haram would kill him or starve him.”
10. Wide shot, Babintu Balla walks with jerry can
11. SOUNDBITE (Kanuri), Babintu Balla, Displaced Child:
“Life in the camp is not easy, if we manage to get food, we eat, but if we can't we just sit, it's not a good life.”
10-12 AUGUST 2016 BANKI, NIGERIA
12. Wide shot, women and children sit outside UNICEF tent
13. Wide shot, women and children sit inside UNICEF tent
14. Med shot, mother holds her malnourished child
15. Close up, child getting weighed in sling
16. Close up, scale
10-12 AUGUST 2016, MUNA CAMP, MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA
17. Wide shot, women and children wait outside UNICEF tent
18. Med shot, malnourished child
19. Med shot, malnourished child sits on mother’s lap
20. Med shot, child being examined
21. Close up, child being examined
22. Med shot, tilt up, child being examined on a scale
23. Med shot, child being given drops
Years of violence by Boko Haram in Africa’s Lake Chad basin have led to a worsening humanitarian crisis that has displaced 1.4 million children and left at least 1 million still trapped in hard-to-reach areas, UNICEF said in a report released today (25 Aug).
The twelve-year-old girl Babintu Balla has escaped from Boko Haram and now living in Muna camp in Maidugrui, Nigeria.
Recalling her experience, she said “when I escaped from Boko Haram, all I could think about was the people I had left behind, especially my grandfather. I thought Boko Haram would kill him or starve him.”
Balla said her life is not easy in the camp, “if we manage to get food, we eat, but if we can't we just sit, it's not a good life.”
UNICEF said in addition to the 2.6 million people currently displaced, an additional 2.2 million people – over half of them children – are feared to be trapped in areas under the control of Boko Haram and need humanitarian assistance. And an estimated 38 children have been used to carry out suicide attacks in Lake Chad basin so far this year, bringing to 86 the total number of children used as suicide bombers since 2014.
Released ahead of the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants to be held on 19 September, the UNICEF report looks at the impact of the Boko Haram insurgency on children in Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad and Niger and its devastating toll on children.
