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STORY: DRC / CENTRAL AFRICANS DISPLACEMENT
TRT:1:53
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 20-21 JANUARY 2021, NDU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO / BURIA, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / FILE
20-21 JANUARY 2021, NDU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
1.Med shot, Joseph, CAR refugee looking on
2.Wide shot, temporary refugee site
3.Close up, Joseph looking on
4.SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph, CAR Refugee:
“There was war in Bangassou. We had to flee. We found refuge here.”
FILE – UNHCR – ARCHIVE - BURIA, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
5.Wide shot, overhead view of village
6.Wide shot, people in market
20-21 JANUARY 2021, NDU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
7.Wide shot, refugees standing in queue
8. Wide shot, women sitting together
9.Wide shot, people riding on canoe
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph, CAR Refugee:
“I want clean water, medicine, food and clothes to protect me, something to sleep on, sheets, blankets and cooking utensils. I really miss that.”
11. Various shorts, UNHCR staff registering refugees
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabien Faivre, Spokesperson, UNHCR DRC:
“They arrived exhausted, with few to no belongings.”
13. Wide shot, UNHCR staffer walking
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabien Faivre, Spokesperson, UNHCR DRC:
“We need your immediate support to assist and help them.”
15. Wide shot, old woman looking on
16.Wide shot, refugees sitting together
17.Wide shot, refugees walking together
18. Wide shot, women and children sitting together
19. Wide shot, woman holding baby
UNHCR is urgently appealing to the international community to mobilize funds, so humanitarian organizations can deliver life-saving assistance to the Central African refugees and their hosts.
Over 200,000 people have been displaced in the Central African Republic in less than two months since election-related violence erupted in December 2020. Some 100,000 people are internally displaced according to figures compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and many more have fled to neighbouring countries.
Refugee arrivals into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reached 92,000 according to local authorities and some 12,600 people have crossed into Cameroon, Chad, and the Republic of Congo. Most refugees are living in remote, hard-to-reach areas close to the rivers in dire conditions without basic shelter and facing acute food shortages.
74-year-old Joseph escaped violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) to neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is the third time he’s fleeing his country because of conflict
SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph, CAR Refugee:
“There was war in Bangassou. We had to flee. We found refuge here.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph, CAR Refugee:
“I want clean water, medicine, food and clothes to protect me, something to sleep on, sheets, blankets and cooking utensils. I really miss that.”
UNHCR is registering new arrivals and providing emergency supplies.
SOUNDBITE (English) Fabien Faivre, Spokesperson, UNHCR DRC:
“They arrived exhausted, with few to no belongings. We need your immediate support to assist and help them.”
Funding for UNHCR’s humanitarian response is already critically low and under severe pressure as the numbers of refugees and their needs have continued to increase.
