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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / TAMBURA DISPLACED POPULATION
TRT: 04:04
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 MAY 2024, TAMBURA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, UN Peacekeepers reinforcement
2. Various shots, newly displaced persons in Tambura
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Papy Christian Tshienda, Acting Head, Yambio Field Office, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“We have really strengthened our coordination and information gathering with the various sources on ground including civilian sources, also military. We have also, as the Field Office, making our efforts to strengthen and reinforce our forces on ground and the cooperation between our force and national forces at Tambura level. Meanwhile in view of high number of IDPs around Tambura and in the camp adjacent to our TOB site in Tambura, what our forces doing is that we are supporting IDPs by providing some water and some other support; also ensuring patrols and security of IDP camp as part of our mandate.”
4. Various shots, newly displaced persons in Tambura
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Lucia Alfred, Displaced Person, Tambura:
“Our hearts as mothers, we want to stay with our children, and want them to be able to study like others in this world. Tambura is finished. Even to get a bucket of water is not easy.”
6. Various shots, UN peacekeepers supplying water to newly displaced persons in Tambura.
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gloria Dario, Displaced Person, Tambura:
“We thank God that UNMISS is helping us with water. If they were not here, we would have been dead by now. And they also help by patrolling the area day and night. Their peacekeepers are not sleeping. In case of any attack on us they offer protection and advise us not to move. We do have a challenge of food.”
8. Various shots, displaced persons in Tambura
With a resurgence of intercommunal conflict, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has reinforced the presence of its peacekeepers in Tambura, Western Equatoria to protect hundreds of displaced persons.
In 2021, tensions erupted in Tambura that resulted in tens of thousands being displaced, while many others lost their lives.
In past weeks, women, children, and the elderly have fled their homes with only a few meager belongings seeking shelter adjacent to an UNMISS temporary base in Tambura. Peacekeepers have been on the ground, reducing tensions and doing everything they can to help ease their suffering.
SOUNDBITE (English) Papy Christian Tshienda, Acting Head, Yambio Field Office, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS):
“We have really strengthened our coordination and information gathering with the various sources on ground including civilian sources, also military. We have also, as the Field Office, making our efforts to strengthen and reinforce our forces on ground and the cooperation between our force and national forces at Tambura level. Meanwhile in view of high number of IDPs around Tambura and in the camp adjacent to our TOB site in Tambura, what our forces doing is that we are supporting IDPs by providing some water and some other support; also ensuring patrols and security of IDP camp as part of our mandate.”
The resurgence of conflict has led to despair among many of the newly displaced.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Lucia Alfred, Displaced Person, Tambura:
“Our hearts as mothers, we want to stay with our children, and want them to be able to study like others in this world. Tambura is finished. Even to get a bucket of water is not easy.”
Though the situation seems hopeless, they are grateful to UNMISS peacekeepers.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gloria Dario, Displaced Person, Tambura:
“We thank God that UNMISS is helping us with water. If they were not here, we would have been dead by now. And they also help by patrolling the area day and night. Their peacekeepers are not sleeping. In case of any attack on us they offer protection and advise us not to move. We do have a challenge of food.”
UNMISS and local authorities are doing everything they can to deescalate the situation and restore calm.
