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STORY: UNHCR / EASTERN DRC VIOLENCE COVID-19
TRT: 4:53
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: SWAHILI / FRENCH/ SANGO / NATS
DATELINE: 14 APRIL 2020, BENI, NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Various shots, internally displaced people in queues as they practice social distancing
2. Med shot, UNHCR staff member organizing queues
3. Wide shot, UNHCR staff member organizing queues
4. UPSOUND (Swahili) humanitarian worker from INTERSOS:
“You know this illness caused by Coronavirus – it is called the COVID-19.”
5. Various shots, people washing hands at sanitation point
6. Wide shot, humanitarian worker checking woman’s temperature
7. UPSOUND (Swahili) humanitarian worker from INTERSOS:
“You know there are two illnesses. The first one is?”
8. UPSOUND, people responding “Ebola”
9. UPSOUND (Swahili) humanitarian worker from INTERSOS:
“The second one?”
10. UPSOUND, people responding “Corona”
11. UPSOUND (Swahili) humanitarian worker from INTERSOS:
“So, you know them.”
12. Wide shot, getting temperature check before going into registration area
13. Wide shot, man giving his ID card for registration
14. Close up, mobile phone in hand
15. Med shot, man receiving mobile phone for money transfer
16. Various shots, Kavugho registering for new phone and money transfer
17. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Kavugho Kahuko Solonita, internally displaced person:
“This will help me a lot. I will buy a blanket. I have a baby boy by the name Kapule. He doesn’t speak. All our belongings got burnt in the house. I will also use this money to buy him clothes because we don’t have anything.”
02 APRIL 2020, INKE CAMP, NORD UBANGI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
18. UPSOUND (French) Forida Koyakpo, Central African refugee:
“One of the symptoms of this disease is a high fever.”
19. Various shots, volunteers on megaphone, talking to refugees
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Forida Koyakpo, Central African refugee:
“I leave very early in the morning at 4am to raise awareness about this disease. It has spread around the world. I have to go out to raise awareness within the population here in my zone, Ndoye.”
FILE - NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
21. Various shots, IDP settlement
02 APRIL 2020, INKE CAMP, NORD UBANGI PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
22. SOUNDBITE (French / Sango) Nyabikando Hawa, , Central African refugee:
“They are telling us about this disease that is affecting everybody. They are telling us not to get together in large groups.”
23. Wide shot, Forida on megaphone
24. SOUNDBITE (French) Forida Koyakpo, Central African refugee:
“In the neighbourhoods, the children were all over. I started walking around to raise awareness. This is important because I have seen that there is change. Right now, people are listening, and they are putting it to practice and I can see there is change.”
25. Various shots, volunteer talking to refugees about COVID-19
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned that ongoing violence in eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) displacing thousands of people could unleash terrible consequences for the country as it grapples to initiate a new fight against COVID-19.
UNHCR said ongoing violence and insecurity in the DRC could make it harder for the displaced to access public health facilities. Many areas and sites hosting displaced people are also overcrowded, making it difficult to implement physical and social distancing.
More than five million people have been uprooted by conflict within the DRC's borders, the single-largest internally displaced population in Africa. The country also hosts over half a million refugees, fleeing unrest and persecution in the neighbouring countries.
As confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in DRC with 267 confirmed cases and 22 deaths, mainly in the capital Kinshasa, UNHCR said it was working closely with other UN and humanitarian partners to prevent the spread of the disease among refugees and the internally displaced.
UNHCR said it was strengthening its regular health and sanitization activities in camps, sites and transit centres where possible. The present COVID-19 prevention measures include temperature screening at entry points of camps, sites and transit centres.
Fifty-nine-year-old widow, Kavugho Kahuko Solonita fled her home two months ago when there was fighting in her village. Kavugho and her son live with a host family in Beni. She used the money she received to buy beddings and clothes.
SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Kavugho Kahuko Solonita, internally displaced person:
“This will help me a lot. I will buy a blanket. I have a baby boy by the name Kapule. He doesn’t speak. All our belongings got burnt in the house. I will also use this money to buy him clothes because we don’t have anything.”
UNHCR said it was also conducting mass awareness-raising activities on health measures being implemented by the Government and on guidance on preventive measures to lower the risk of infection.
In addition, UNHCR is maintaining existing programmes where possible - continuing to assist with cash-based interventions to support the displaced in North Kivu province to meet a variety of needs, including access to food, healthcare and shelter. The Agency said it was now using mobile money transfers to reduce physical contacts. It provided over 5,900 internally displaced households with mobile phones and SIM cards.
