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STORY: UNHCR / SOUTH SUDAN DISPLACED
TRT: 06:38
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 - 09 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
06 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Raouf Mazou and others at the reception centre
09 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Raouf Mazou, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, UNHCR:
“We are here in, in Maban,one of the places in South Sudan where we have, a very significant influx of refugees and returnees from, from Sudan. Since April last year, this country has received more than 500,000 people. About 100,000, Sudanese refugees and about 400,000 South Sudanese returnees.”
06 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
3. Various shots, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Raouf Mazou and others at the reception centre
09 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Raouf Mazou, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, UNHCR:
“What we've seen is that there are a lot of opportunities, a lot of projects that they could be funding. We've heard from the authorities the importance of building a bridge that will expand the land that is available to, refugees and to returnees. We heard of the possibility of building a dam that would reduce the impact of the floods that are affecting the region on a, on a regular basis. So, these are the kind of things that we humanitarian actors cannot, fund, cannot mobilize funding for. But these are the kind of things that African Development Bank and other development actors can actually do.”
06 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
5. Various shots, focus group with newly arrived refugees
6. Various shots, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade looking at arts and crafts made by refugees
7. Various shots, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade talking to refugees
09 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, African Development Bank:
“We have decided to partner with the UNHCR because as part of the bank strategy for addressing fragility and helping to bring to build resilience in countries, one of the tenants is to leave no one behind. And we are extremely and I think the international community should be very grateful to the government of South Sudan for their open policy in welcoming more refugees who are coming.”
06 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
9. Wide shot, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade and Raouf Mazou walking to a meeting
09 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, African Development Bank:
“We are really looking to, you know, help empower, the youth and the women of this refugee camp and to give them opportunities, opportunities to be really, positive contributors in their host communities and bring about the skills, the knowledge that they had when the crisis struck where they were coming from and which they are bringing in to host communities.”
06 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
11. Various shots, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade and Raouf Mazou meeting with the local authorities
05 FEBRUARY 2024, GENDRASSA REFUGEE CAMP, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN
12. Various shots, refugees and returnees disembarking buses with the help of UNHCR staff
13. Various shots, UNHCR staff greeting and giving instructions to the newly arrived
14. Med shot, young boy listening to UNHCR staff
15. Med shot, young girl holding her sister in her arms
16. Various shots, non-food items (NFI) distribution
17. Med shot, man and woman filling buckets of water
18. Wide shot, large group of newly arrived walking with their belongings
19. Various shots, truck containing luggage being unloaded
20. Med shot, young girl walking carrying an empty water container
21. Various shots, newly arrived family settling in a UNHCR shelter
22. Various shots, family settling in housing, carrying bed frame
The African Development Bank and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, committed to deepening their collaboration for displaced people and host communities in South Sudan, as refugees are being relocated to settlements where resources were already overstretched.
SOUNDBITE (English) Raouf Mazou, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, UNHCR:
“We are here in, in Maban,one of the places in South Sudan where we have, a very significant influx of refugees and returnees from, from Sudan. Since April last year, this country has received more than 500,000 people. About 100,000, Sudanese refugees and about 400,000 South Sudanese returnees.”
Since the start of the war in Sudan 300 days ago, more than half a million people have arrived in South Sudan, most of them South Sudanese who had been in Sudan for decades. Many are heading back to villages that barely have any services and where there is no humanitarian assistance available.
SOUNDBITE (English) Raouf Mazou, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, UNHCR:
“What we've seen is that there are a lot of opportunities, a lot of projects that they could be funding. We've heard from the authorities the importance of building a bridge that will expand the land that is available to, refugees and to returnees. We heard of the possibility of building a dam that would reduce the impact of the floods that are affecting the region on a, on a regular basis. So, these are the kind of things that we humanitarian actors cannot, fund, cannot mobilize funding for. But these are the kind of things that African Development Bank and other development actors can actually do.”
Senior officials from the African Development Bank and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency paid a joint visit to Gendrassa Refugee Camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State.
Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, the Bank’s Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, and Raouf Mazou, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, met with government authorities, refugees and members of the host community.
SOUNDBITE (English) Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, African Development Bank:
“We have decided to partner with the UNHCR because as part of the bank strategy for addressing fragility and helping to bring to build resilience in countries, one of the tenants is to leave no one behind. And we are extremely and I think the international community should be very grateful to the government of South Sudan for their open policy in welcoming more refugees who are coming.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, African Development Bank:
“We are really looking to, you know, help empower, the youth and the women of this refugee camp and to give them opportunities, opportunities to be really, positive contributors in their host communities and bring about the skills, the knowledge that they had when the crisis struck where they were coming from and which they are bringing in to host communities.”
The visit comes in the context of deepening partnership between the two institutions, strengthened collaboration among humanitarian and development actors globally, and an influx of more than 500,000 people fleeing the war in Sudan – including both Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees.
