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STORY: UN / WEST AFRICA PEACE
TRT: 03:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
11 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel:
“The spillover of the Malian crisis is increasingly affecting Burkina Faso and Niger. Terrorist groups continue to cause devastation throughout the region, despite ongoing counterterrorism operations. The complexity of recent attacks is a worrying outcome of West African and Sahelian Islamist groups reinforcing their linkages.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel:
“In the Lake Chad Basin, despite gains made by the Nigerian armed forces and the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Boko Haram and the Islamic State's West African Province remain active. Attacks in southeast Niger have recently increased, including on July 1 with the killing often Nigerien soldiers.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel:
“The trend of Boko Haram using female suicide bombers continues, and reportedly almost one in five suicide bombers is a child. The most recent attacks on a Nigerian military garrison in Yobe State and the ambush of a military convoy in Borno, are the latest manifestations of the threats still posed by Boko Haram.”
8. Wide shot, Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel:
“The severe depletion of Lake Chad has led to environmental degradation, socio-economic marginalization and insecurity for 45 million people. An estimated 2.3 million people remain displaced by the aggregate effects of insecurity, weak governance and climate change.”
10. Wide shot, Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel:
“Let me stress that any military response to security challenges in the region needs to be matched by the implementation of comprehensive strategies linking security and humanitarian interventions to development and human rights initiatives. There is also a need to increase our collective efforts to address the challenges facing the Sahel region with actions that combine politics, security and development.”
12. Wide shot, Council
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Chambas, today (17 Jun) told the Security Council that “the spillover of the Malian crisis is increasingly affecting Burkina Faso and Niger,” adding that “terrorist groups continue to cause devastation throughout the region, despite ongoing counterterrorism operations.”
In the Lake Chad Basin, Chambas said, “despite gains made by the Nigerian armed forces and the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Boko Haram and the Islamic State's West African Province remain active.”
Attacks in southeast Niger, he said, “have recently increased, including on July 1 with the killing often Nigerien soldiers.”
Chambas told the Council that “the trend of Boko Haram using female suicide bombers continues, and reportedly almost one in five suicide bombers is a child.”
The Ghanaian diplomat said, “the severe depletion of Lake Chad has led to environmental degradation, socio-economic marginalization and insecurity for 45 million people” and noted that “an estimated 2.3 million people remain displaced by the aggregate effects of insecurity, weak governance and climate change.”
Chambas stressed that “any military response to security challenges in the region needs to be matched by the implementation of comprehensive strategies linking security and humanitarian interventions to development and human rights initiatives.”
Chambas is the head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).
