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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / YEI SHEARER VISIT
TRT: 1:28
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 1 NOVEMBER 2018, YEI, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Internally displaced people
2. Tilt up, IDP children dancing
3. Wide shot, IDP children dancing
4. Med shot, IDPs clapping
5. Pan right, IDP child walking
6. Med shot, women waiting
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Hakim Wata, Internally Displaced Person:
“People are rejoicing. Meanwhile, we are in agony. We are suffering. We are crying so we wish the peace would come also to Yei so we can enjoy it like the rest of the world.”
8. Follow shot, Convoy at Yei town
9. Various shots, Yei town
10. Wide shot, Shearer arrives at IDP camp
11. Med shot, Shearer shakes hands with IDPs
12. Med shot, IDP women dancing in happiness
13. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“The peace celebration was a wonderful day. It was a great day. But there are places in the country where the war goes on and in and around Yei, where there are multiple factions fighting each other, the fighting is going on and what we’ve got to be able to do is to try and create a presence and a stability down there that will enable people to get back and into their homes.”
14. Aerial shot, Yei River State
These women and children left their homes and everything they own as they fled the violent conflict in the Yei region of South Sudan. They have sought sanctuary with other displaced families in temporary settlements in the relative safety of the town itself.
The people of Yei are yet to feel the benefits of the peace deal that was signed between warring factions, as fierce clashes continue between armed groups fighting for territorial control in the area.
SOUNDBITE (English) Emmanuel Hakim Wata, Internally Displaced Person:
“People are rejoicing. Meanwhile, we are in agony. We are suffering. We are crying so we wish the peace would come also to Yei so we can enjoy it like the rest of the world.”
Before fresh fighting flared up earlier in October, the area had experienced a lull in the violence which encouraged thousands of people to return from their hiding places in the bush or from refugee camps in Uganda and the Congo. They hoped to make a fresh start. Instead, they were again caught in the crossfire.
More than a thousand of those affected gathered to share their stories with the Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan David Shearer who came to Yei as the Mission has established a new base in in town to provide a protective presence and help build peace.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“The peace celebration was a wonderful day. It was a great day. But there are places in the country where the war goes on and in and around Yei, where there are multiple factions fighting each other, the fighting is going on and what we’ve got to be able to do is to try and create a presence and a stability down there that will enable people to get back and into their homes.”
The impact of the war as well as bad weather is taking a huge toll. About 20 per cent of all of South Sudan’s food supply used to come from this region. But the insecurity and heavy rains have destroyed crops and roads, contributing to a grim economic situation for a region that was once flourishing.
