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STORY: GENEVA / SUDAN CRISIS
TRT: 5:19
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 08 NOVEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / 28-29 OCTOBER 2024 IN ADRE, CHAD
08 NOVEMBER 2024, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Med shot, exterior, UN flag alley
2. Wide shot, podium with speakers at Press conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director of External Relations:
“This week, we have reached a devastating milestone. Since the war broke out 19 months ago, over three million people have been forced to flee Sudan, seeking safety in neighbouring countries and further afield.”
4. Wide shot, journalists, TV journalist, camera and control room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director of External Relations:
“It's been over a year and a half of unimaginable suffering, brutal atrocities and widespread human rights violations. Every day of every minute, thousands of lives are shattered by war and violence away from the world's attention.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director of External Relations:
“Chad has become what I would call a sanctuary, a lifeline for these refugees, the 700,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled since the beginning of the war in April of last year.”
8. Med shot, TV screens showing speaker lining walls of Press room, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director of External Relations:
“Since the start of the war, over 370,000 refugees have been relocated to six new-build settlements and 10 extensions of pre-existing settlements, all completed in record time. But tens of thousands of families are still waiting for that opportunity to start over."
10. Med shot, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director of External Relations:
“Other countries neighbouring Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Central African Republic have gone above and beyond their means, not only providing safety for people to flee, but extending a chance to refugees to start rebuilding their lives while in exile.”
12. Med shot, podium speakers
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director of External Relations:
“I spoke to people who watched while their families were murdered. People are targeted on the basis of their ethnicity. Men and boys are killed and their bodies are burned. Women raped while fleeing. People told me over and over again how they remember the bodies they saw abandoned by the road as they were fleeing.”
14. Various shots, podium speakers and journalists
28-29 CTOBER 2024 IN ADRE, CHAD
15. Various shots, aerial views of informal displacement shelters in Adre, Chad
16. Med shot, people sheltering under open ten
17. Med shot, people - mainly children - sheltering under open tent
18. Med shot, children and women in open tent
19. Close up, woman looking into distance.
20. Med shot, children and women in open tent
21. Close up, woman looking at camera
22. Close up, elderly woman with young girl walks in front of camera
23. Med shot, UNHCR registration
24. Med shot, UNHCR registration
25. Med shot, women sitting on ground in shade of open tent
26. Med shot, two women sitting on ground in shade of open tent
27. Aerial shot, Aboutengue site in Chad
28. Wide shot, shelters, a huge tree
29. Med shot, displaced people sheltering under the tree
30. Med shot, displaced people sheltering under the tree
31. Med shot, displaced woman
32. Med shot, displaced woman
33. Med shot, displaced people registering for nutrition services
34. Med shot, infant nutrition distribution point
35. Med shot, woman walks around nutrition station
36. Med shot, woman receives relief support
37. Med shot, woman, girl and baby rest in the shade
38. Med shot, women and children resting
Sudan’s displaced have endured “unimaginable suffering” in their search for shelter from the country’s ongoing war, UN humanitarians warned on Friday (08 Nov).
Nineteen months since conflict erupted between rival militaries the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces over the transfer of power to civilian rule, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) expressed deep concern that more than three million people have now been forced to flee the country in search of safety.
“It's been over a year and a half of unimaginable suffering, brutal atrocities and widespread human rights violations,” said Dominique Hyde, UNHCR Director of External Relations. “Every day of every minute, thousands of lives are shattered by war and violence away from the world's attention.”
Speaking in Geneva after visiting displaced communities sheltering in neighbouring Chad, Ms. Hyde described Chad as “a sanctuary, a lifeline” for 700,000 war refugees.
“I spoke to people who watched while their families were murdered,” she said. “People are targeted on the basis of their ethnicity. Men and boys are killed and their bodies are burned. Women raped while fleeing. People told me over and over again how they remember the bodies they saw abandoned by the road as they were fleeing.”
The UNHCR official explained that in the face of massive needs, the UN agency and partners had relocated more than 370,000 refugees in Chad “to six new-build settlements and 10 extensions of pre-existing settlements, all completed in record time. But tens of thousands of families are still waiting for that opportunity to start over”.
The exodus from Sudan has put pressure on surrounding countries to provide assistance to all those in need of shelter and basic services.
“Other countries neighbouring Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Central African Republic have gone above and beyond their means, not only providing safety for people to flee, but extending a chance to refugees to start rebuilding their lives while in exile,” the UNHCR official said.
“Continuing bloodshed” in Sudan’s Darfurs and across the country has created the world's worst civilian protection crisis in decades but “the world is not paying any attention”, Ms. Hyde insisted.
The $1.5 billion Refugee Response Plan for Sudan’s displaced which aims to assist 2.7 million people in five neighbouring countries is only 29 per cent funded. “Chad and its people…have been more than generous, more than welcoming,” Ms. Hyde said. “I heard over and over again that they felt one with the Sudanese community. But we need that support. We need support now.”
