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STORY: CAMEROON / DISPLACED MUELLER VISIT
TRT: 02:07
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 FEBRUARY 2018, FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
23 FEBRUARY 2018, MAROUA AIRPORT, FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON
1. Wide shot, Mueller greeted by Governor of the Far North region
23 FEBRUARY 2018, ZAMAI IDP SITE, FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON
2. Med shot, UN Resident Coordinator in Cameroon and Mueller arriving at Zamai Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) site
3. Med shot, Mueller walking through the IDP site
4. Med shots, Mueller speaking to IDP children
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, Assistant-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“But we need a lot more resources from the international community to sustain the humanitarian response. So, I appeal to the international donor community to provide the financial resources to keep the humanitarian assistance flowing and scaling up because these people here are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection.”
7. Close up, Mueller speaking with UNICEF psychosocial worker
8. UPSOUND (local language) Sara, displaced woman:
“My husband and I were kidnapped by Boko Haram. I found a way to escape and since then I have no clue where my husband is nor even if he is still alive.”
23 FEBRUARY 2018, MINAWAO REFUGEE CAMP, FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON
9. Med shot, Mueller walking through camp
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, Assistant-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“I’ve seen here in this refugee camp that hosts 62,000 refugees from Nigeria that fled the violence of Boko Haram that there is increased need of humanitarian assistance, life-saving assistance, and the international humanitarian community can step up if financial resources are provided by the international donor community.”
23 FEBRUARY 2018, ZAMAI IDP SITE, FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON
11. Med shot, Mueller and displaced women laughing
23 FEBRUARY 2018, MINAWAO REFUGEE CAMP, FAR NORTH REGION, CAMEROON
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula Mueller, Assistant-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations:
“Here in this refugee camp, humanitarians have access. But there are parts further north where there is a challenge in security and access of humanitarian assistance. But we appeal also to the government to assist in enabling us to deliver humanitarian assistance and I appeal again to the donors to come up with funding because this is a crisis that is not on the focus of the media every day.”
13. Wide shot, Refugees playing traditional greeting and celebratory music
During a visit to the Far North region of Cameroon, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ursula Mueller called on international donors to step up their assistance in a “crisis that is not on the focus of the media every day.”
Mueller is on a visit to the region to see first-hand the devastating humanitarian consequences of the ongoing violence affecting the Lake Chad Basin and the Central African Republic (CAR).
Speaking from the Minawao refugee camp today (23 Feb), Mueller said there is an increased need of “life-saving assistance” in the camp which is host to some 62,000 refugees from Nigeria who fled the violence of Boko Haram.
In Cameroon, large-scale displacement fueled by the Boko Haram crisis in the north and the neighboring crisis in CAR are compounding high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. Humanitarian organizations are redoubling their efforts with the Government and development partners to enhance linkages between emergency response and development programming, including to address protracted displacement.
The UN humanitarian office (OCHA) said countrywide, close to 2.8 million people are food insecure and over 200,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. In the Far North region, one out of 3 people, some 1.5 million people, are food insecure at crisis and emergency levels and prevalence of severe acute malnutrition has exceeded the alert threshold of one percent in the region.
OCHA said the UN and its partners need $305 million to provide emergency aid to 1.3 million people in 2018 adding that the humanitarian response in Cameroon is critically underfunded. OCHA noted that the joint humanitarian response plan proposed by the UN and partner NGOs received less than the required funding in 2017.
OCHA said people in Cameroon are facing the consequences of multiples crises fuelled by violence and conflict in the Lake Chad Basin and the Central African Republic as well as socio-political tensions. After Nigeria, Cameroon is the second most affected country in the Lake Chad crisis, in terms of displacement, number of people in food insecurity and children suffering from acute malnutrition. In the eastern and northern regions, the continued conflict in the CAR has led to a massive influx of refugees to Cameroon.
