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STORY: WFP / SOUTH SUDAN CHAD SUDANESE REFUGEES
TRT: 02:41
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
05 SEPTEMBER 2024, RENK, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, refugees, flooded transit camps
2. Various shots, WHO team unloading vaccine from vehicles and walking up towards the school
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aban Kwarwangi, 80-years-old returnee who fled the fighting in Sudan:
“Here we are suffering from a lot of mosquitoes and snakes. As you can see houses are empty, people have all run away. The situation is miserable, we have no food, things are expensive in the market and we don’t know how to feed our children.”
05 - 11 SEPTEMBER 2024, ADRE, CHAD
4. Various shots, WFP vehicles and trucks carrying food, some stuck in the mud, trying to cross flooded border area from Chad into Darfur
11 SEPTEMBER 2024, ADRE, CHAD
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Leni Kinzli, Spokesperson in Sudan, World Food Programme (WFP):
“It’s the height of the rainy season and millions of people are affected across Chad, Sudan and South Sudan. Heavy downpours are also making it extremely difficult for WFP to transport assistance across flooded and muddy roads. But we are getting trucks into war torn Darfur every single day for hundreds of thousands of people at risk of famine. But we need maintained an expanded access so that we can ramp up our assistance save lives and prevent famine from spreading.”
6. Zoom in, vehicles stuck in mud
Seasonal rains and floods are adding another layer of misery for hungry families displaced by Sudan’s war and complicating World Food Programme (WFP)’s humanitarian response. WFP
Back in May, WFP warned that communities would be cut off and risk starving unless food supplies were positioned ahead of time.
Access restraints made that nearly impossible.
Now rains and floods across Sudan and its neighbours (Chad, South Sudan, Libya) are pushing vulnerable communities to the brink and delaying the delivery of vital humanitarian assistance.
Bridges and roads are washed out and water must recede in wadis (seasonal rivers) to allow trucks to pass.
WFP has multiple convoys on the road right now - carrying over 6,000 metric tonnes of assistance for over 400,000 people.
All this convoys have been impacted by the rainy season: slowed by muddy near-impassable road, forced to reroute where bridges have been swept away, and forced wait until seasonal riverbeds have dried out before proceeding.
In the transit camp in Renk, South Sudan, heavy rains and flash flooding has displaced around 4,500 people (local community and refugees/returnees) destroyed property and livelihoods, and compromised water and sanitation systems.
It has also delayed onward transportation of new arrivals from transit centres and delayed vital food prepositioning.
Distributions for Sudanese refugees in Chad continued in August, except in few sites which were cut off by the rains.
Upcoming distributions are scheduled on time.
Pre-positioning food supplies before the rainy season enabled WFP to maintain the response, as well as transporting aid into Sudan.
But rains and floods have caused significant difficulties for convoys with trucks often stranded just a few hundred meters from the warehouses, heavily hampering our operations.
Above average rainfall is forecast until September (typically the peak of the rainy season) with a high risk of devastating floods in Sudan and South Sudan.
Some forecasts warn that flooding in Sudan could surpass the historic 2020 floods that hit Khartoum.
