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STORY: CAR / REFUGEE RETURNEES
TRT: 4:14
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 NOVEMBER 2019, SUD UBANGI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO / 21 NOVEMBER 2019, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
21 NOVEMBER 2019, SUD UBANGI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
1.Various shots, refugees gathered at departure area
2.Various shots, woman dressing young child
3.Various shots, refugees walking with their belongings
4.Various shots, refugees walking with their belongings to board boats
5.Various shots, refugees boarding boat
6. Various shots, refugees on boat
7. Close up, refugee crying as his children look on
8. Various shots refugees on boat
9. Various shots, boats on water
21 NOVEMBER 2019, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
10. Various shots, boat on water as it approaches port in Bangui
11. Various shots, people waiting at port
12. Med shot, refugees celebrating on boat
13. Med shot, woman getting off boat with her child
14. Various shots, returnees, Serge Adame with his family
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Serge Adame, Central African returnee:
“My feelings, I can tell you that they are really unlimited because after six years of absence, I am happy to find that my friends and my parents know that I am home today. So, really, I pray to God. We are like newborns. Today, we arrived, and we will adapt to the country.”
16.Wide shot, returnees at welcome ceremony
17. Med shot, UNHCR staff helps returnee with her luggage
18. Med shot man breaks down as he gets off boat
19. SOUNDBTIE (English) Buti Kale, UNHCR Representative in Central African Republic:
“We hope to continue, and with the funding that we have for a limited number of refugees, we are going to do it until the end of this year and we will be continuing through out 2020 to make sure that those who have expressed the will to come back will be able to do so.”
20. Wide shot, aerial of port
On Thursday (21 Nov), the first voluntary repatriation programme brought some 400 Central African refugees who have lived in exile across the river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) back to their home country.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is helping hundreds of refugees currently living in the Democratic Republic of Congo to return to the Central African Republic.
On Thursday (21 Nov), some 400 refugees left in a convoy of four trucks and light vehicles from Mole refugee camp to Zongo in Sud Ubangi Province, northern DRC. They continued their journey by boat to Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.
SOUNDBITE (French) Serge Adame, Central African returnee:
“My feelings, I can tell you that they are really unlimited because after six years of absence, I am happy to find that my friends and my parents know that I am home today. So, really, I pray to God. We are like newborns. Today, we arrived, and we will adapt to the country.”
This is the first voluntary repatriation programme for around 172,000 people that have lived in exile across the river in DRC after being forcibly displaced from CAR since 2013.
The start of the repatriation follows a tripartite agreement signed by UNHCR and the governments of DRC and CAR in June 2019.
SOUNDBTIE (English) Buti Kale, UNHCR Representative in Central African Republic:
“We hope to continue, and with the funding that we have for a limited number of refugees, we are going to do it until the end of this year and we will be continuing through out 2020 to make sure that those who have expressed the will to come back will be able to do so.”
Returnees said better security in their areas of origin and the peace agreement between the CAR government and armed groups were the main reasons for their decision to end their exile.
Nearly 600,000 refugees from CAR are living in DRC and other neighbouring countries, while an equal number remains displaced inside its borders. Voluntary returns are based on individual refugee decisions and continued protection in hosting countries will be needed for those who do not feel safe to return home.
