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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / AMOS JONGLEI
TRT: 2:26
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 FEBRUARY 2012, WALGAK/PIBOR, SOUTH SUDAN
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2 FEBRUARY 2012, WALGAK, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos with delegation walking from plane
2. Med shot, Amos speaking to a displaced woman among
3. Close shot, Amos listening and nodding in response
4. Reverse shot, displaced woman with child
5. Various shots, Amos in conversation with displaced woman
6. Wide shot, woman walking with sack of food rations
7. Med shot, other women walking away with rations
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Of course, we’re not ready for any kind of major movement from the North to the South given what we are dealing in the South Sudan already. Capacity is already extremely stretched and the challenges that we face in terms of raising money for air operations because the transport system is really non-existent, so you are not able to bring in food and other supplies by road - they are air-lifted – this is an extremely challenging operating environment.”
2 FEBRUARY 2012, PIBOR, SOUTH SUDAN
9. Wide shot, crow of displaced people
10. Med shot, Amos talking with local authorities
11. Various shots, crowd of displaced people, many children
12. Med shot, Amos meeting with large group of displaced people
13. Close shot, displaced woman
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I think that the whole world is concerned that the talks between Sudan and South Sudan have broken down in a way that they have. Peace, security and stability is what the people of South Sudan and the people of Sudan need, and we all hope that the two governments will be able to resolve their difficulties.”
15. Various shots, displaced people waiting in line outside hospital
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos on Thursday visited South Sudan’s Jonglei State, where tribal conflict has intensified in recent months and where thousands of displaced persons are in need of humanitarian aid.
During her three-day visit to land-locked South Sudan – her first – Amos stressed that one of South Sudan’s biggest challenges was addressing the needs of hundreds of thousands of displaced people, as well as the dire malnutrition faced by refugees from conflict zones in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile States who are currently living along the border areas.
Visiting Walgak village during her day-long trip to Jonglei, Amos witnessed an aid operation and had a chance to speak to some of the displaced. She also met with government representatives and aid agencies, which are currently working on contingency plans to address a potential influx of close to 700,000 people across the border after recent announcements that South Sudanese living in Sudan must leave.
SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Of course, we’re not ready for any kind of major movement from the North to the South given what we are dealing in the South Sudan already. Capacity is already extremely stretched and the challenges that we face in terms of raising money for air operations because the transport system is really non-existent, so you are not able to bring in food and other supplies by road - they are air-lifted – this is an extremely challenging operating environment.”
Amos also went to Pibor, the site of recent large scale inter-communal attacks, where close to 90,000 people have been registered for assistance.
There, she expressed concern that, among other outstanding issues between Sudan and South Sudan, efforts to resolve a recent dispute over oil had faltered.
SOUNDBITE (English) Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“I think that the whole world is concerned that the talks between Sudan and South Sudan have broken down in a way that they have. Peace, security and stability is what the people of South Sudan and Sudan need and we all hope that the two governments will be able to resolve their difficulties.”
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan last July after southerners voted overwhelmingly early last year to secede following decades of a military campaign for self-determination.
Between 28 December 2011 and 10 January 2012, several inter-communal attacks took place in Walgak, located in Jonglei’s Akobo County. Three classrooms were burnt down during the attack and a humanitarian assessment identified food, health, water and sanitation as urgent needs affecting the conflict-affected population.
Amos is scheduled to meet South Sudanese President Salva Kiir before her departure.
