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STORY: SUDAN / HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 1:24
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 24/22 NOVEMBER 2010 KHARTOUM, SUDAN
24 NOVEMBER 2010 KHARTOUM, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, journalists
2. Close up, cameraman
3. SOUNDBITE (English) George Charpentier, Deputy Special Representative of Secretary-General and UN Resident Coordinator & Humanitarian coordinator in Sudan saying:
“The Humanitarian Country Team is providing targeted assistant in areas return, focusing in the usual return packages but also on livelihood and services to promote and support reintegration in order to a void creating new conditions of dependency and especially new IDPs camps.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) George Charpentier, Deputy Special Representative of Secretary-General and UN Resident Coordinator & Humanitarian coordinator, Sudan saying:
“To ensure timely support, supplies in key live-saving sectors, including health, nutrition, water, and food are being procured and pre-positioning in several places and in the line with potential needs. In order that the humanitarian partners are able to deliverer assistances to people in need, the government in both north and the south has been called upon to ensure unhindered humanitarian access to vulnerable populations.”
22 NOVEMBER 2010, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
7. Wide shot, southerners, busses
8. Wide shot, people in top of buses
9. Close up, a southerner talking with father
10. Close up, children on bus
11. Wide shot, people, baggage and buses
12. Wide shot, buses moving
As part of its efforts to assist in the return of refugees and displaced persons, the United Nations in Sudan (UNMIS) has enhanced its monitoring of the number of people going back to their homes in the country’s south.
Speaking at a press conference in Khartoum today, the UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Georg Charpentier, said the UN and its partners, in collaboration with national and state authorities, have enhanced monitoring of departures in the country’s north, as well as in key transit hubs and return areas.
One of the tasks of the UNMIS is to facilitate and coordinate, within its capabilities and areas of deployment, the voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Charpentier said the “UN Humanitarian Country Team is providing targeted assistant in areas return, focusing in the usual return packages but also on livelihood and services to promote and support reintegration in order to a void creating new conditions of dependency and especially new IDPs camps.”
He added “the government in both north and the south has been called upon to ensure unhindered humanitarian access to vulnerable populations.”
By the end of 2009, total returns had climbed to more than 2.3 million, consisting of both organized and spontaneous returns. According to the Southern Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, 18,213 state-organized returns to Unity (state) with buses continuing to arrive.
On 9 January next year, the inhabitants of southern Sudan will vote on whether to secede from the rest of the country, while the residents of the centrally-located Abyei area, will vote on whether to be part of the north or the south.
The referenda will be the final phase in the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended two decades of conflict between the northern-based Government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in the south.
