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STORY: OCHA / CAR MSUYA VISIT
TRT: 8:10
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14-16 OCTOBER 2025, ZEMIO, BIRAO, BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
14 OCTOBER 2025, ZEMIO
1. Various shots of start of resilience project and ASG Msuya laying the first stone in Zemio
16 OCTOBER 2025, BANGUI
2. Various shots, Joyce Msuya Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator
The IDP communities, they found a safe place to live, but they wish they could go to the farms and do some agricultural activities to feed their families. Because of security situations, they don’t go.
14 OCTOBER 2025, ZEMIO
3. Various shots, ASG Msuya visiting IDP communities in Zemio
16 OCTOBER 2025, BANGUI
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Yesterday I spent a few hours with the Sudanese refugees in Birao, a community of 16,000 Central Africans hoisting 27,000 Sudanese refugees, 56 percent of those 27,000 are women and children. And I have seen pain. Yesterday was a different level of pain - women whose limbs have been cut, and yet they traveled with their injuries to CAR, because it’s safer here.”
15 OCTOBER 2025, BIRAO
5. Various shots, ASG Msuya visiting Sudanese refugees in Birao
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sudanese Refugee (name withheld):
“In Sudan our houses were destroyed. When we got here, UNHCR and the Government helped us with tarpaulins for shelter, and we are grateful. After that they constructed some houses. But not everybody got them. There are families with children, women and elders who are in need
16 OCTOBER 2025, BANGUI
7. SOUNDBITE (English) JOYCE MSUYA, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I have been deeply touched by the commitment of humanitarians on the ground the ground. Local, national NGOs, and some international NGOs, who are doing so much for the communities, at their own risk [despite] huge funding cuts globally that is happening, but yet they have not left the communities. I recognize that even though the humanitarian needs in this country are still high – 37 percent of people [are]in need of humanitarian assistance here - but there has been progress. When I was in Bria, I was briefed that the number of IDPs has gone down and part of the reason of this improvement in the humanitarian situation over the last two years is because of improved security and stability.”
8.Wide shot, ASG Msuya talking to Sudanese refugee women
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sudanese refugee (name withheld):
“Before we used to travel to do business and we were farming, but now we can’t do anything because of insecurity. We’re scared we can’t move.”
16 OCTOBER 2025, BANGUI
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“In my entire conversations, whether it was with IDPs or refugees, when I asked them, what are their aspirations, what would they like to see from the international community? Most of them appreciated the work and the support they have received, whether it's shelter or a place to go and get water and almost all them, they wished for peace, for security. They wished for their children to go to school, for pregnant women to go to hospitals and be serviced, which is an area usually serviced by the development actors. And the lesson there for me is the role of the humanitarian assistance is to complement the development assistance, because we cannot have words to let their lives being lost.”
11. Pan left, Sudanese refugee women and children
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sudanese refugee (name withheld):
“It’s the war that got us here. We Thank NGOs and the Government who provided us with tarpaulins, mats, cloths, bucket, cups, they gave us all of them, we are grateful. But the fact that we don’t farm puts us in trouble.”
13. pan right, Sudanese refugee women and children
Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Joyce Msuya visited the Central African Republic, where the humanitarian situation remains dire complicated by internal displacement, incoming refugees from Sudan, and funding cuts.
“I have been deeply touched by the commitment of humanitarians on the ground,” said ASG Msuya. “Local, national NGOs, and some international NGOs, who are doing so much for the communities, at their own risk [despite] huge funding cuts globally that is happening, but yet they have not left the communities.”
Humanitarian needs remain high in CAR, despite the improvement in security in some areas – Millions of people are still displaced, food insecure, and in urgent need of protection and basic services. The situation remains worrying in regions where insecurity persists and where the population is exposed to climate change. One in five Central Africans remains displaced either within the country or abroad, mainly in neighboring countries, due to the insecurity caused by the conflict.
