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STORY: SOMALIA / INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
TRT: 04:59
SOURCE: UNSOM
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNSOM ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 APRIL 2022, MOGADISHU, GALKAYO, SOMALIA
06 APRIL 2022, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
1. Med shot, Abdelmoula, boarding the plane, Aden Abdulle International Airport, Mogadishu
2. Med shot, Abdelmoula, reading notes on the plane to Galkayo
3. Close up, Abdelmoula, reading.
4. Med shot, Guisse, writing notes onboard the plane
06 APRIL 2022 GALKAYO, SOMALIA
5. Wide shot, plane landing in Galkayo
6. Wide shot, UN delegation arriving at Abdullahi Yusuf Airport
7. Med shot, UN staff member driving in the convoy of the visiting UN delegation
8. Wide shot, convoy arriving at Buula-Bacley IDP settlement
9. Med shot, Abdelmoula talking with camp leaders
10. Med shot, UN in conversation with camp leaders
11. Wide pan shot, IDPs sitting under a tree
12. Wide pan shot, UN officials arriving at the Hormaar Health Centre
14. Various shots, UN officials in conversation with healthcare workers
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia:
“It gives me the firsthand testimony that I need to provide to our donors and to let them know that it is not a fictional thing to talk about the 1.4 million malnourished children.”
16. Wide pan shot, women, children, Buula-Bacley IDP settlement
17. Wide shot, Abdelmoula, speaking to a mother and her family, Buula-Bacley IDP settlement
18. Various shots, Abdelmoula, listening to a woman in her home, Buula-Bacley IDP settlement
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia:
“It is really, really heart-wrenching, especially seeing that there are so many children in these IDP camps. I asked them, how many of you go to school? First of all, it turned out that none of the girls is going to school in these two camps that I visited. And among the boys, less than 50 percent are the ones who are attending school.”
20. Med shot, boys, girls, Buula-Bacley IDP settlement
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia:
“This is just devastating, and we should just redouble our effort to bring this to the attention of the international community and those who could afford to assist. And we should also leave no stone unturned in order to help these communities that are hurting so enormously.”
22. Med shot, UN delegation’s convoy leaving the Buula-Bacley IDP settlement
23. Wide shot, UN delegation’s convoy arriving at the Salama IDP settlement
24. Med shot, UN officials in conversation with healthcare workers, Salama IDP settlement
25. Med shot, Abdelmoula, Guisse, listening to healthcare workers, the Salama IDP settlement 26. Wide shot, healthcare worker speaking to the UN delegation, Salama IDP settlement
27. Wide shot, Malik, listening to a healthcare worker, Salama IDP settlement
28. Close up, Abdelmoula, listening as a healthcare worker, Salama IDP settlement
29. Med shot, woman meeting with Abdelmoula, Salama IDP settlement
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia:
“Most of these IDPs arrivals, the new arrivals, sought refuge with families that have already been displaced before and have received some assistance from the international community, thereby stretching the already-thin resources that were available to the host communities. So, these are IDPs hosting IDPs, and that led to a severe stretch in the services available in these sites – something that we need to urgently address.”
31. Close up, girl, Salama IDP settlement
32. Various shots, women, children, health centre, Salama IDP settlement
33. Close up, girl, health centre, Salama IDP settlement
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Abdelmoula, UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia:
“But that is far, far less than our ambition. As I said, 4.9 million people are affected by this wave of severe drought, and it is expected to get worse between now and the end of June.”
35. Wide pan shot, boys, Salama IDP settlement
Amid growing famine risk in Somalia, a UN humanitarian visit to Galkayo highlighted the dire conditions of displaced Somalis.
On a visit to the city of Galkayo in northern Somalia today, top United Nations humanitarian officials heard first-hand of the dire conditions that local communities of internally displaced people (IDPs) are enduring amid the severe drought affecting the country – with the visit also providing extra motivation to do more to help those in need as the risk of famine in Somalia grows.
“It gives me the firsthand testimony that I need to provide to our donors and to let them know that it is not a fictional thing to talk about the 1.4 million malnourished children – 330,000 of whom are at risk of dying by the end of this summer if we don't step up our engagement and provide them with the support they need,” the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Adam Abdelmoula, said after visiting two IDP camps in the city’s north.
In Galkayo, Abdelmoula visited the Buula-Baclly and Salama IDP settlements, both of which are receiving support from UN humanitarian agencies in water and sanitation and shelter and protection.
He was accompanied by senior officials of UN agencies working in Somalia – the Country Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Mamunur Malik; the Representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Magatte Guisse; and the Deputy Representative of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Peter Ekayu.
While visiting the IDP camps, the visiting delegation spoke with UN staff on the ground working with local authorities to support assistance efforts and interacted with camp residents. The interaction was moving.
“It is really, really heart-wrenching, especially seeing that there are so many children in these IDP camps. I asked them, how many of you go to school? First of all, it turned out that none of the girls are going to school in these two camps that I visited. And among the boys, less than 50 percent are attending school,” said Abdelmoula, who also serves as the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative to Somalia and UN Resident Coordinator.
“This is just devastating,” he added, “and we should redouble our effort to bring this to the attention of the international community and those who could afford to assist. We should also leave no stone unturned in order to help these communities that are hurting so enormously.”
The UN delegation also took note of the breakdown of IDPs in North Galkayo into three distinct categories: those who have been at some of these sites for decades, new arrivals from inside Somalia, and a third group made of people displaced by the conflict in neighboring Ethiopia.
While host communities have welcomed and supported them as best as possible, the new arrivals have been causing extra local pressure.
“Most of the new arrivals sought refuge with families that have already been displaced before and have received some assistance from the international community, thereby stretching the already-thin resources that were available to the host communities. So, these are IDPs hosting IDPs, and that led to a severe stretch in the services available in these sites – something that we need to urgently address,” Abdelmoula said.
In December last year, the United Nations launched its Humanitarian Response Plan for Somalia. It seeks close to $1.5 billion to assist 5.5 million of the most vulnerable people in Somalia.
So far, it has received just 3.8 percent of the target amount. Despite this, the United Nations in Somalia reached two million people in need of humanitarian assistance in March through innovative approaches to distributing and accessing resources.
“But that is far, far less than our ambition,” said Abdelmoula, “4.9 million people are affected by this wave of severe drought, and it is expected to get worse between now and the end of June.”
According to the latest drought situation report from OCHA, Somalia’s drought emergency has deteriorated to a point where the country faces famine risk.
Humanitarian agencies, authorities, and local communities are ramping up responses and reprogramming activities to address the impact of the drought, OCHA noted, adding that the levels of need are rapidly rising, surpassing available capacities and resources.
The escalating emergency calls for sustained scaling up of response and flexibility in reprogramming, especially given that weather forecasts predict an average to below-average rainy season this month. More than 80 percent of the country has remained generally dry, and water and staple food prices have experienced dramatic price hikes.
In addition, current food and water assistance levels are quickly being outpaced by the rapid increase in the size of the food insecure population, widening of household food consumption gaps, loss of livelihood assets, and worsening acute malnutrition levels.
