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STORY: UNMISS / SOUTH SUDANESE RETURNEES
TRT: 04:21
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 JUNE 2023, LEER, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, leaving peacekeeper base
2. Med shot, peacekeepers on back of patrol truck
3. Close up, peacekeeper helmet on back of patrol truck
4. Wide shot, peacekeepers 4WDing through tough terrain
5. Wide shot, truck convoy of returnees packed in tight
6. Med shot, peacekeepers at port next to returnees luggage
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Baffour Osei-Agyemang, UNMISS peacekeeper, Ghana:
“Okay. So currently we area at Nyeroup port, which is a few kilometers of the main Bentiu, Leer, Route.”
8. Wide shot, panning portside with returnees and peacekeepers
9. Med shot, kids on luggage
10. Med shot, returnees in shade with luggage
11. Med shot, kid playing at port
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Baffour Osei-Agyemang, UNMISS peacekeeper, Ghana:
“So, we are here [to] just find out the security situation and how it affects our operations; if some of these activities are going to impede the operations of the UN as well as find out how it [might] affect the general situation within the county.”
13. Med shot, peacekeepers walking down road.
14. Med shot, peacekeepers watching convoy of humanitarians go by
15. Close up of fisherman’s hands
16. Med shot of fisherman
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Baffour Osei-Agyemang, UNMISS peacekeeper, Ghana:
“From what we’ve gathered here today, about 8,000 returnees from Khartoum, arrived on nine barges and along the way they had a few casualties, which is very sad. And currently there are measures that have been put in place by the humanitarian organizations to convey them to certain places [where] they’ll be fed [receive food assistance]; [where] they’ll be settling in once they are able to settle down. Most of them also do not fully understand where they are going to settle down as they have been out [of] here [South Sudan] for more than 15, 16 years.”
18. Med shot, cargo boat pan up
19. Close up, old lady on boat
20. Med hot, kids on boat
21. Med hot, view of port from boat
22. Med shot, crowd getting aid
23. Wide shot, view of cargo boats
24. Med hot, smiling kids on boat
25. Wide shot, truck coming through
26. Close up, returnees on truck
27. Med shot, truck driving off
As the crisis in Sudan continues to unfold, tens of thousands of South Sudanese are returning to their own country through border areas. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and humanitarian partners are rallying to make sure that new returnees are safe and have access to necessary aid.
A few weeks ago, some 8,000 returnees arrived from Khartoum in nine barges, undertaking a harrowing journey, fighting for their lives. Ghanaian troops from the UN Peacekeeping went to meet these new arrivals and monitor the security situation on the ground.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Baffour Osei-Agyemang, UNMISS peacekeeper, Ghana:
“So, we are here to find out the security situation and how it effects our operations; if some of these activities are going to impede the operations of the UN as well as [to] find out how it [will] affect the general situation within the county.”
With South Sudan at a critical time in its history as the clock ticks down towards this young nation’s first-ever elections at the end of 2024; reduced donor funding for vulnerable people given competing crises across the world; and stiff competition over scarce resources and services, these twice displaced returnees need all the help they can get.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Baffour Osei-Agyemang, UNMISS peacekeeper, Ghana:
“From what we’ve gathered here today, about 8,000 returnees from Khartoum, arrived on nine barges and along the way they had a few casualties, which is very sad. And currently there are measures that have been put in place by the humanitarian organizations to convey them to certain places [where] they’ll be fed [receive food assistance]; [where] they’ll be settling in once they are able to settle down. Most of them also do not fully understand where they are going to settle down as they have been out [of] here [South Sudan] for more than 15, 16 years.”
Though they are safe for now, with the government, UNMISS, humanitarian partners and international friends joining hands to do everything in their power to alleviate their suffering, it will take time for these returnees to rebuild their lives.
