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STORY: NIGER / MALI REFUGEES
TRT: 2:12
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: TAMASHEK / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 5 -9 FEBRUARY 2013, Mangaïzé, Niger
1. Wide shot, Mangaizé refugee camp
2. Med shot, Mangaizé refugee camp
3. Med shot, refugees crowded around tents
4. SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Rakia Akhamdou, Malian refugee:
“After the bombing of Konna, there were a lot of armed men who stormed Kidal. The Islamist movement really frightened us.”
5. Various shots, family inside the tent
6. Close shot, girl
7. SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Fatima Wallet Abdou:
“I had to leave because I was afraid to be assaulted and I was afraid for my children too. Now, after what I have seen, I cannot imagine going back.”
8. Wide shot, refugees outside the tents, mothers with children
9. Wide shot, kids in the camp area
10. Med shot, people walking in the camp
11. Wide shot, refugee families, women and children
12. Wide shot, kids and goats in front of the tents
13. Med shot, children playing the sand
14. Wide shot, women standing in line at the feeding center where food aid is provided for children
15. Med shot, women and children inside the feeding center
16. Close shot, mother feeding child cereal
17. Close shot, baby eating nutritional mix
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Diallo Mahamadou Mariatou, Social Worker at Islamic Relief:
“For each child, we have three meals in the day. We use Premix. We cook it for every child. Premix is a food that helps malnourished child get better”
19. Med shot, inside feeding center
20. Close shot, baby eating premix
21. Med shot, mothers and children
22. Wide shot, men and donkeys in camp
They fled their homes for the fear of their lives. Months after Mali plunged into chaos. Refugees are still arriving at this camp.
SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Rakia Akhamdou, Malian refugee:
“After the bombing of Konna, there were a lot of armed men who stormed Kidal. The Islamist movement really frightened us.”
With the horrors of the conflict still fresh in their minds, they say for now there is no going back.
SOUNDBITE (Tamashek) Fatima Wallet Abdou:
“I had to leave because I was afraid to be assaulted and I was afraid for my children too. Now, after what I have seen, I cannot imagine going back.”
50,000 people are seeking refuge here in Niger, one of the poorest countries of the world
Away from the violence, they face a different kind of enemy. Hunger is paralyzing hundreds of refugees.
Last year, the malnutrition rates amongst children under five were higher than emergency levels.
For the past 3 months, UNICEF, The World Bank and UNHCR have been feeding nearly 1,200 children at the camp.
SOUNDBITE (French) Diallo Mahamadou Mariatou, Social Worker at Islamic Relief:
“For each child, we have three meals in the day. We use Premix. We cook it for every child. Premix is a food that helps the child screened as malnourished to help him to go ahead, to give him what he didn’t get.”
The food aid that trickles through is helping, but there is still very little to keep them going in this heat.
Their horizons as empty and desolate as the desert surrounding them.
