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STORY: UNICEF / SUDAN DISPLACEMENT CRISIS
TRT: 05:10
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02, 03 FEBRUARY 2024, DARFUR / CHAD
FEBRUARY 2024, DARFUR
1. Close up, banner at the entrance of a temporary facility in Hamadia IDP camp, Zalengei, Central Darfur where internally displaced people and host communities are accessing health and nutrition services delivered by the Sudan red Crescent with UNICEF support
2. Wide shot, health worker measures the height of a young child using a measuring board in Hamadia Internally Displaced Person’s Camp, Zelingei Town, Central Darfur as other mothers wait for their turn. The activity is supported by Sudan Red Crescent, UNICEF’s implementing partner
3. Close up, health worker from Sudan Red Crescent UNICEF’s implementing partner registers a child in Hamadia Internally Displaced Person’s Camp, Zelingei Town, Central Darfur
4. Med shot, using a UNICEF scale, a child is screened for malnutrition by health workers from Sudan Red Crescent - UNICEF’s implementing partner in Hamadia Internally Displaced Person’s Camp, Zelingei Town, Central Darfur
5. Close up, health workers from Sudan Red Crescent measure the height of a child (crying) using a height board during a health clinic in Hamadia Internally Displaced Person’s Camp, Zelingei Town, Central Darfur
6. Wide shot, mothers with babies await registered prior to receiving immunization services at Geneina Hospital
7. Wide shot, mother with her kid helps him to stand on a scale at Geneina Hospital.
8. Med shot, mother holds her baby as a health worker measures him with a (mid-upper arm circumference) MUAC tape at the nutrition facility in Geneina Hospital, MUAC screening is among the services provided
9. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): “This place is just so eerie. Absolute silence. This was a bustling community. This is just thousands of families, it's Sunday. There should be kids playing, families seeing one another. The buildings are pockmarked. The remnants of all these bullets and shells everywhere. Buildings have been burnt out. They've been ransacked. These were people's homes. They either have been killed or had to flee. It's got to stop. It's maddening. It's saddening. Yeah, it's too much.”
10. Wide shot, destroyed properties, on the side of the road from Chad to Genenia Sudan, West Darfur
11. Wide shot, burned down cars, on the side of the road Darfur
12. Wide shot, burned down personal belongings in Darfur
13. Wide shot, burned down personal belongings in Darfur
14. Wide shot, home furniture destroyed in Darfur
15. Wide shot, burned down home in Darfur
16. Wide shot, burned down home, and clothes and personal belongings burned down in Darfur
17. Med shot, burned down personal belongings and school papers in Darfur
18. Med shot, bullets shells on the streets in Darfur
FEBRUARY 2024, FARCHANA IDP CAMP IN CHAD
19. SOUNDBITE (English) James Elder, Spokesperson, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“I’m in Farchana in eastern Chad, right on the border with Sudan, where a truly brutal war has displaced millions of girls and boys, millions of children.”
20. Med shot, the Child Friendly Space tent in Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
21. Wide shot, kids are playing together with cubes in The Child Friendly Space tent in Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
22. Med shot, girl drawing at The Child Friendly Space tent in Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
23. Med shot, a group of boys smiling to the camera, hold papers with their drawings., at The UNICEF Child Friendly Space tent in Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
24. Med shot, a group of boys smiling to the camera, hold papers with their drawings., at The UNICEF Child Friendly Space tent in Farchana IDP Camp in Chad.
25. Close up, a group of boys smiling to the camera, hold papers with their drawings., at The UNICEF
26. Med shot, a girl drawing a house on her piece of paper at The UNICEF Child Friendly Space tent in Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
27. Wide shot, a group of kids are playing and jumping at The Child Friendly Space tent in Farchana IDP Camp in Chad.
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Malaz Ahmed, from Genenia, Sudan at the Farchana IDP Camp in Chad:
“My name is Malaz Ahmed, I live in Farchana Camp. I was sleep in my country, it is called Genenia.
The war is begin, in our area. Big sounds of shots, and then, they have more people they are killed there [Genenia], and my neighbor was there. I couldn't go to my home, to [meet] with my grandmother and my aunt [who were] there. After that the war was so difficult, they say you should go with us [her neighbors in Genenia], and your family will come after you. The people in Sudan, [her neighbors], they are saying, she’ll [Malaz's mother], come from Khartoum. And they are saying [her neighbors], and they are saying, that she [Malaz’s Mother], and my grandmother, they are killing them. For that we are say that it is wrong, we are patient, we are not give up. I was happy that day, [when she finally reunited with her mother]. I don’t know why I’m in this camp? I don’t know why I’m here. But she come, [her mother], and she pick me up, saying I’m here, [and] I’m coming. Usually, I come here, play volleyball, and draw the picture, after that I go to home, and I help my family to do the food, after that, I’m revising my lessons and go to the institute of French and the institute of English.”
29. Wide shot, Malaz drawing at the UNICEF Child Friendly Space in the Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
30. Close up, Malaz drawing at the UNICEF Child Friendly Space in the Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
31. Wide shot, Malaz is playing volleyball with other girls in the Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
32. Wide shot, Malaz and her mother are walking together at the Farchana IDP Camp in Chad
As Sudan’s brutal war hits the 300-day mark, widespread malnutrition, the world’s largest child displacement crisis, and a shattered health system threaten to kill far more children than the armed conflict itself.
UNICEF is seeing record levels of admissions for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) – the deadliest form of malnutrition – in the areas that can be reached with humanitarian assistance. Conditions in areas unreachable because of the fighting – where children are in most urgent need – are undoubtedly worse.
An estimated 3.5 million children are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year, including over 700,000 who are expected to suffer from SAM and require specialized, uninterrupted, life-saving treatment.
Around 3 million children have been internally displaced since the outbreak of fighting, in addition to 2 million displaced in previous crises – the largest number of internally displaced children globally. Anecdotal reports point to a potential dramatic spike in deaths among children in severely overcrowded and unsanitary displacement sites, where the spread of disease poses particularly lethal risks for children suffering from SAM, who are up to 10 times more likely to succumb to disease than a healthy child.
Health workers have not been paid in months. More than 70 percent of health facilities in conflict-affected areas are no longer functional, and two-thirds of the population lack access to health care. The number of cholera cases alone has more than doubled over the past month, with over 10,000 suspected cases and 300 deaths, 16 percent among children under 5, recorded as of end-January. There also have been outbreaks of measles in areas hosting large numbers of displaced children.
“The lethal combination of malnutrition, mass displacement, and disease is growing by the day, and we have an extremely short window to prevent a massive loss of life,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “We need safe, sustained, and unimpeded humanitarian access across conflict lines and across borders – and we need international support to help sustain the essential services and systems that children rely on for survival.”
The latest food security analysis for Sudan showed the highest levels of hunger ever recorded during the October-February harvest season, following the recent spread of insecurity to Al Jezira state, the country’s breadbasket. Unless humanitarian assistance can be significantly scaled up, parts of Khartoum, Kordofan and Darfur will face an elevated risk of catastrophic hunger conditions by the next lean season, which could begin as early as March this year. It is particularly critical to get humanitarian supplies into Darfur, which has seen some of the worst fighting and hosts over one-third of the displaced population, and where over 200,000 children are projected to suffer from SAM.
UNICEF is the sole provider of the ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) used to treat children suffering from SAM. With partners, we have secured the pipeline of RUTF through July and are implementing a scaled-up response to prevent a massive loss of lives. This includes mobile health and nutrition teams, find-and-treat campaigns, and support to frontline health workers to prevent the total collapse of life-saving health services for children. Teams are closely monitoring displacement trends, cross-border movements and sudden, life-threatening spikes in nutrition and disease numbers.
A record 14 million children – half of all children in Sudan – now require humanitarian assistance. Thousands have been killed and injured, and countless more are exposed to grave protection violations, including sexual violence and recruitment or use in the conflict. With most schools shuttered or struggling to reopen across the country, a staggering 19 million school-age children risk losing out on their education.
In 2024, UNICEF is appealing for USD 840 million to reach 9.9 million people, including 7.6 million of the most vulnerable children in Sudan, with humanitarian assistance. Despite the magnitude of needs, UNICEF received just 28 percent of its 2023 appeal.
“We cannot abandon the children of Sudan,” said Russell. “The impact of nearly 10 months of war, displacement, disease, and deprivation on Sudan’s 24 million children is horrific. Without urgent action and additional resources, the country risks a generational catastrophe that will have grave implications for the country, the region, and beyond. Above all, Sudan’s children need a ceasefire, and peace.”
