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STORY: WFP / SUDAN CONVOY FOOD AID
TRT: 02:45
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 NOVEMBER 2024, KOULBOUS, CHAD / 09 NOVEMBER 2024, ADRE, CHAD / 14 NOVEMBER 2024, PORT SUDAN, SUDAN / 12 NOVEMBER 2024, SUAKIN, SUDAN
13 NOVEMBER 2024, KOULBOUS, CHAD
1. Aerial shot, general views, newly arrived refugees wait to receive WFP food
2. Tilt down, from newly arrived refugees to baby on mother’s back
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoul Rassoul Yaya, Teacher:
“Everyone of us is suffering and has lost a couple of his family. Some of them are dead. Some of them until now, they didn’t find where they are. They are seeking for them every single place but, unfortunately, they didn’t find any other place. So, they are escaping from Sudan to Chad for the safe place.”
4. Wide shot, newly arrived refugees
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoul Rassoul Yaya, Teacher:
“They didn’t have something to eating or to drinking or to make themselves healthy. This is the major problem that we are suffering in this camp.”
6. Med shot, newly arrived refugees
SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Ismail Mansour, Displaced Person:
“I lost my brother. Until now, I don’t know whether he died or not. And also, I have my child. Until now I never see them. I don’t know where. I ask the people until now, where is my family?”
7. Various shots, newly arrived refugees newly arrived refugees receive WFP food
09 NOVEMBER 2024, ADRE, CHAD
8. Various shots, WFP food convoy on the road from Chad to Sudan
14 NOVEMBER 2024, PORT SUDAN, SUDAN
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Marianelli, Deputy Country Director, Sudan, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We've been pushing for months to get to these communities. We've got convoys coming from Port Sudan into going to Kadugli to Dilling. Also, other convoys trying to reach North Darfur. The message is these convoys have to reach their final destination. We have to get to these populations. We're asking everybody involved along those roads to give us free passage so that we can assist these populations.”
12 NOVEMBER 2024, SUAKIN, SUDAN
10. Various shots, WFP food convoys leaving Port Sudan
A new major surge of World Food Programme (WFP) food convoys is arriving in hard-to-reach regions to prevent the spread of famine in Sudan.
The number of new arrivals from Sudan tripled between September and October, leading to a total of nearly 1.3 million refugees currently located in Chad.
SOUNDBITE (English) Abdoul Rassoul Yaya, Teacher:
“Everyone of us is suffering and has lost a couple of his family. Some of them are dead. Some of them until now, they didn’t find where they are. They are seeking for them every single place but, unfortunately, they didn’t find any other place. So, they are escaping from Sudan to Chad for the safe place.”
“They didn’t have something to eating or to drinking or to make themselves healthy. This is the major problem that we are suffering in this camp.”
Since last September, spikes in violence in Sudan have pushed 70,000 people in the Koulbous area where WFP is providing food and nutritional support.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammad Ismail Mansour, Displaced Person:
“I lost my brother. Until now, I don’t know whether he died or not. And also, I have my child. Until now I never see them. I don’t know where. I ask the people until now, where is my family?”
Following negotiations to keep the Adre crossing open, trucks carrying vital food and nutrition supplies are crossing from Chad into Darfur.
For the first time in months there are multiple WFP convoys of food aid heading to Zamzam where famine was confirmed and Kadugli in South Kordofan, areas that have been largely cut off from aid since the start of the conflict and where they are urgently needed to prevent famine from spreading.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Marianelli, Deputy Country Director, Sudan, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We've been pushing for months to get to these communities. We've got convoys coming from Port Sudan into going to Kadugli to Dilling. Also, other convoys trying to reach North Darfur. The message is these convoys have to reach their final destination. We have to get to these populations. We're asking everybody involved along those roads to give us free passage so that we can assist these populations.”
On 12 November WFP food convoys left Port Sudan for famine risk areas including Zamzam camp in North Darfur and South Kordofan.
The shipments mark the beginning of what is expected to be the largest food aid operation since start of the conflict.
Stocks of nutrition supplies in Zamzam camp are nearly finished. The convoy from Port Sudan is carrying nutrition supplies.
Adre border is slated to remain open for an additional three months beyond 15 November.
Over 5,600 MT of WFP food commodities – enough for nearly half a million people – has crossed into the Darfur region via Adre since August.
Famine - only the third famine confirmation this century – is happening in North Darfur’s Zamzam camp while 13 other areas are at risk of famine: 1.7 million people.
25.6 million people, over half the population, are acutely food insecure (IPC 3+). This is the highest food insecurity ever recorded by IPC in Sudan.
1 in every 2 people globally facing catastrophic levels of hunger (IPC5) lives in Sudan (more than 750,000 Sudanese).
A record 4.7 million children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls are suffering from acute malnutrition.
