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STORY: SUDAN / DSG AMINA MOHAMMED VISIT
TRT: 6:47
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNICEF ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 AUGUST 2024, PORT SUDAN, SUDAN
1. Various shots, Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban and other UN officials landing in Port Sudan airport and welcomed by the Sudanese government officials
2. Various shots, Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban and other UN officials attend meetings at Coral Hotel with Ms. Salwa Adam Benia, Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, and H.E. Hussein Awad Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The visit has been at the opportunity of the Government opening up the border in Adre. The humanitarian task that we have in Sudan has been very big. It has been one that we have been consistently supporting the Government to try to address the crisis in the country. The many atrocities that we have seen [inaudible] upon men, women, children, especially, and for that, we wanted to come to speak and to support the Government in keeping that border open and aid to the people that need it most across the country. But in this particular case, this new opening gave us another opportunity.”
4. Various shots, Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban and other UN officials meet with H.E General Ibrahim Jaber
5. Various shots, Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban and other UN officials meet with Malek Agar
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The second, of course, is to bring the international community again to see the visibility of the crisis here in Sudan. It is a huge one. There are many people suffering. It requires enormous support for commitments that have been made to the humanitarian cause, but have to be fulfilled, and they have to be done urgently. We have impending crisis around famine. We are not getting medical supplies in where there are health crises. But more importantly, we have to remember the suffering of the people, and we are here to do this with the Government of Sudan. So that really has been the main reason for coming here. This is not outside of the political processes that are being supported by the United Nations and the Personal Envoy to the Secretary-General, but we would like all of them to happen at the same time, because, of course, the suffering of the people in this country is one of the worst crises in the world today.”
7. Various shots, Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban and other UN officials visit to Abdullah Naji internally displaced gathering site in Port Sudan
The Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed was in Port Sudan today (29 Aug). She was accompanied by Ramtane Lamamra, the Personal Envoy for Sudan, as well as the Resident Coordinator for Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, and senior officials from the World Food Programme, UNHCR, and UNICEF. They met with displaced persons, they also met with the UN team, and with a number of government officials of Sudan. This is aimed at highlighting the humanitarian crisis ongoing in the country.
Speaking to reporters, the Deputy Secretary-General said, “The visit has been at the opportunity of the Government opening up the border in Adre. The humanitarian task that we have in Sudan has been very big. It has been one that we have been consistently supporting the Government to try to address the crisis in the country.”
She added, “The many atrocities that we have seen [inaudible] upon men, women, children, especially, and for that, we wanted to come to speak and to support the Government in keeping that border open and aid to the people that need it most across the country. But in this particular case, this new opening gave us another opportunity.”
The Deputy Secretary-General also said, “The second, of course, is to bring the international community again to see the visibility of the crisis here in Sudan.”
“It is a huge one. There are many people suffering. It requires enormous support for commitments that have been made to the humanitarian cause, but have to be fulfilled, and they have to be done urgently,” she highlighted.
The UN deputy chief continued, “We have impending crisis around famine. We are not getting medical supplies in where there are health crises. But more importantly, we have to remember the suffering of the people, and we are here to do this with the Government of Sudan.”
