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STORY: UN / SUDAN HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
TRT: 01:18
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
02 AUGUST 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, UN spokesperson at dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In a statement released today, the Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, stressed that to stop a large-scale famine from taking hold in the country, donors must urgently scale up their financial support while using diplomacy to push for opening humanitarian access. She said the humanitarian community in Sudan has been scaling up the response in recent months, but the needs are immense and there isn’t a moment to waste.”
4. Med shot, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Now, more than half of Sudan’s population – some 25.6 million people – is facing acute hunger. Ms. Nkweta-Salami called for the silencing of the guns to enable safe and unimpeded humanitarian access across borders and battle lines – as well as an urgent injection of funding for aid operations. As of today, this year’s $2.7 billion humanitarian response plan for Sudan is less than a third funded, with $872 million received.”
6. Wide shot, presser
Briefing reporters today (2 Aug) in New York on the situation in Sudan, a UN spokesperson said, “Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, stressed that to stop a large-scale famine from taking hold in the country, donors must urgently scale up their financial support while using diplomacy to push for opening humanitarian access.”
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq added that the Humanitarian Coordinator in that country also said the humanitarian community in Sudan has been scaling up the response in recent months, but the needs are immense and there isn’t a moment to waste.
Haq noted that currently more than half of Sudan’s population – some 25.6 million people – is facing acute hunger.
According to the UN spokesperson, Nkweta-Salami called for the silencing of the guns to enable safe and unimpeded humanitarian access across borders and battle lines – as well as an urgent injection of funding for aid operations.
He also said, “As of today, this year’s USD 2.7 billion humanitarian response plan for Sudan is less than a third funded, with USD 872 million received.”
