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STORY: UN / CHAD FLOODS
TRT: 1:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
18 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2.Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Turning to Chad, our humanitarian colleagues tell us that more than one million men, women and children in Chad are now impacted by floods, in 18 out of 23 provinces.
Heavy rains started in early July and have quickly overwhelmed drainage channels and ponds.
The southern part of the country was hit the hardest, but the flooding also struck some eastern provinces such as in Sila causing rivers to overflow. In the capital, N’Djamena, several neighborhoods are entirely submerged, with people forced to flee their homes. Some 465,000 hectares of agricultural land have been destroyed, which could further aggravate the already critical food insecurity situation in the country.We and our humanitarian partners, in support of the Government, have delivered food, medicine, tents, mosquito nets, solar lamps and other items to about 200,000 people. The humanitarian community and the Chadian Government’s joint flood response plan seeks nearly $70 million to reach 800,000 people, but so far, but so far it’s only 25 per cent funded. We are ramping up efforts to mobilize resources to reach more people. Last month, $5 million was allotted from the Central Emergency Response Fund to respond to the floods. The 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan for Chad is only 38 per cent funded.”
4.Wide shot, press briefing room
“More than one million men, women and children in Chad are now impacted by floods, in 18 out of 23 provinces. Heavy rains started in early July and have quickly overwhelmed drainage channels and ponds,” a UN Spokesperson said.
Speaking to reporters today (18 Oct) in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said,
“the southern part of the country was hit the hardest, but the flooding also struck some eastern provinces such as in Sila causing rivers to overflow. In the capital, N’Djamena, several neighborhoods are entirely submerged, with people forced to flee their homes.”
He continued, “some 465,000 hectares of agricultural land have been destroyed, which could further aggravate the already critical food insecurity situation in the country.”
The UN and its humanitarian partners, in support of the Government, have delivered food, medicine, tents, mosquito nets, solar lamps and other items to about 200,000 people.
Dujarric also said, “the humanitarian community and the Chadian Government’s joint flood response plan seeks nearly $70 million to reach 800,000 people, but so far, it’s only 25 per cent funded.”
He added, “we are ramping up efforts to mobilize resources to reach more people. Last month, $5 million was allotted from the Central Emergency Response Fund to respond to the floods. The 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan for Chad is only 38 per cent funded.”
