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STORY: OCHA / FLETCHER CHAD SUDAN
TRT: 08.58
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 28 NOVEMBER 2024, ADRE, CHAD / 29 NOVEMBER 2024, WEST DARFUR, SUDAN
28 NOVEMBER 2024, SPONTANEOUS REFUGEE SITE, ADRE, CHAD
1. Wide shot, Sudanese refugee crowds
2. Close up, refugee mother and child
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I know that the situation is very, very hard. And I know that you need food and medicine and education and shelter and pride and dignity.”
4. Med shot, aid distribution
5. Zoom in, food distribution
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“My job is to take what you're saying and tell the world that they must do more to support you. “
28 NOVEMBER 2024, BORDER CROSSING, ADRE, CHAD
7. Various shots, UN convoy approaching the Sudanese border
8. Zoom in, sign at border crossing
9. Med shot, USG Fletcher shaking hands with one of the drivers of the trucks carrying aid provisions into West Darfur, Sudan
10. Med shot, driver climbing on the truck
11. Various shots, aid trucks crossing from Chad into West Darfur
12. Various shots, traffic at the border crossing
13. Pan left, USG Fletcher listening in at a focus group with representatives of the host communities in Chad
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Madina Abdelaziz, Adre Host Community Representative:
“The size of the population has increased. It’s a whole country that has come to a city.”
29 NOVEMBER 2024, WEST DARFUR, SUDAN
15. Various shots, UN convoy crossing from Chad into West Darfur, Sudan
16. Various shots, Al Geneina city
19. Med shot, Mubarak, Displaced People Representative in Riyadh Camp in Al Geneina, addressing UN delegation
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mubarak, Displaced People Representative in Riyadh camp, Al Geneina:
“We came from different areas, and they hosted us in the neighbourhoods, Ag Genenia city neighbourhoods. More than 15,000 displaced people. And we are suffering, we need more help. Help should not be reserved for a specific group. We need humanitarian assistance in health, education and psychological support for children affected by wars in this area. Therefore, we need more support from you to save families in dire need. We have many families here. They need this help and are in dire need.
We are very thankful to you, thank you so much and God bless you.”
21. Various shots of UN delegation meeting with representatives of the Riyadh camp community
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“So, I'm talking from Darfur at the end of more than a week of a mission in Sudan and Chad. And it's been a tough, tough mission because the situation is tough. It's a tough situation out there, the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. And I've been talking to local people to host communities.”
23. Various shots, USG Tom Fletcher talking to the community in Riyadh camp
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I'm more convinced than ever that we must redouble our efforts to generate the funds to give these people the support that they want, but also generate the political will to end this crisis, to end this conflict, because ultimately, without peace, they will not be able to go home and rebuild their lives and give their kids and their grandkids the lives that they deserve. So, we have a tough, tough job ahead of us. We've made great progress. We've got more checkpoints open, more hubs open. We've got more humanitarian flights coming through. We've made agreements with those. We need to make agreements with to get this aid through. But now we need to deliver an avalanche of support because the needs are 25 million people in need. These numbers are staggering, and we cannot turn our backs.”
24. Various shots, Riyadh camp community members
At the end of a nine-day visit to Sudan and Chad, Under-Secretary General for humanitarian affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher today (30 Nov) issued a statement saying, “the message to the international community from those at the heart of this crisis is unequivocal: We are not invisible.”
On Thursday (28 Nov), Fletcher visited Adre, on the Chadian side of the border with Sudan.
He underscored that the border crossing is a lifeline for desperately needed aid to reach people in Sudan.
SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I know that the situation is very, very hard. And I know that you need food and medicine and education and shelter and pride and dignity.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“My job is to take what you're saying and tell the world that they must do more to support you. “
At the border, Fletcher attended a focus group with representatives of the host communities in Chad.
SOUNDBITE (French) Madina Abdelaziz, Adre Host Community Representative:
“The size of the population has increased. It’s a whole country that has come to a city.”
The Under-Secretary-General on Friday (29 Nov), traveled to Sudan’s Darfur region.
In El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, he met the Wali or Governor of West Darfur, El Tijani Karshoum Tigani Eltahir Karshoum. During their discussions, the USG spoke of his conversations in recent days with people who fled Sudan’s conflict into Chad, where they are now living in desperate conditions.
At the Riyadh Camp in El Geneina, he also met Displaced People Representative Mubarak.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mubarak, Displaced People Representative in Riyadh camp, Al Geneina:
“We came from different areas, and they hosted us in the neighbourhoods, Ag Genenia city neighbourhoods. More than 15,000 displaced people. And we are suffering, we need more help. Help should not be reserved for a specific group. We need humanitarian assistance in health, education and psychological support for children affected by wars in this area. Therefore, we need more support from you to save families in dire need. We have many families here. They need this help and are in dire need.
We are very thankful to you, thank you so much and God bless you.”
USG Fletcher recounted that refugees there have arrived from Darfur with tragic and heart-rending stories. They want peace, he stressed, and to return to their land and their lives.
SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“So, I'm talking from Darfur at the end of more than a week of a mission in Sudan and Chad. And it's been a tough, tough mission because the situation is tough. It's a tough situation out there, the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. And I've been talking to local people to host communities.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“I'm more convinced than ever that we must redouble our efforts to generate the funds to give these people the support that they want, but also generate the political will to end this crisis, to end this conflict, because ultimately, without peace, they will not be able to go home and rebuild their lives and give their kids and their grandkids the lives that they deserve. So, we have a tough, tough job ahead of us. We've made great progress. We've got more checkpoints open, more hubs open. We've got more humanitarian flights coming through. We've made agreements with those. We need to make agreements with to get this aid through. But now we need to deliver an avalanche of support because the needs are 25 million people in need. These numbers are staggering, and we cannot turn our backs.”
Nearly 20 months of war have turned Sudan into the fastest-growing displacement crisis, with an average of a staggering 20,000 people forced to move every day.
Sudan has also become the worst hunger crisis in the world, with three quarters of a million people one step away from famine and 26 million people – more than half the country’s population – suffering from hunger.
Chad has welcomed around 700,000 Sudanese in less than two years.
