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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / JONGLEI FLOOD UPDATE
TRT: 2:39
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / KOREAN / NATS
DATELINE: 5 SEPTEMBER 2013, BOR, SOUTH SUDAN
1.Wide shot, man cycling through water
2. Med shot, car and shops under water
3. Med shot, man carrying some of his belonging through water
4. Pan, flooded shops and cars under water
5. Wide shot, 4-wheel drive car passing through flooded area
6. Wide shot, Nhial Majak Nhial – Mayor of Bor inside flooded area
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nhial Majak Nhial, Mayor of Bor:
“Actually now over five thousands families are displaced. As soon as the water … because the water pass here through the tunnel, so many people are displaced here and the western part of the town is displaced.”
8. Wide shot, displaced families
9. Med shot, temporary residence of the displaced
10. Wide shot, UNMISS peacekeepers driving trucks
11. Med shot, Korean peacekeepers using excavator on the bank
12 SOUNDBITE (Korean) Col. Ko Dongjun, Commander, UNMISS Korean Engineering Unit
“We are using ten excavators and other vehicles and we brought fifteen ton dump trucks and we are committing around fifty personnel, the number of people and equipment will be increasing. The aim of this work is to stop the flood so we are making dyke on the southern side and that will stop the flooding from expanding to the northern side.”
13. Shot, UNMISS truck dumping soil on the banks
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nhial Majak Nhial, Mayor of Bor:
“We have received tremendous help from the people of UNMISS specially from people of the Republic of South Korea, the South Korean Army they have been here overnight working with us and they came this morning again, they are trying all their best, they brought their machine, without their help this town would have been cut yesterday into two halves."
15. Wide shot, Mayor Nhial talking to residents
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nhial Majak Nhial, Mayor of Bor:
“I am asking for all the humanitarian agencies to act quickly to provide non-food items and food items for the people that have been displaced here.”
17. Wide shot, Korean peacekeepers returning to base
The continuing rise in the River Nile's water level in town capital city of Jonglei state, has destroyed hundreds of houses and displaced over five thousands of people.
The river, which broke its banks on Tuesday, has risen more than 1.5 meters deluging areas of the city.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nhial Majak Nhial, Mayor of Bor:
“Actually now over five thousands families are displaced. As soon as the water … because the water pass here through the tunnel, so many people are displaced here and the western part of the town is displaced.”
Displaced people have put a temporary shelter along the main road.
Peacekeepers from South Korean Military Engineers serving with the United Nation Mission in South Sudan have been involved in attempts to keep the rain waters away.
SOUNDBITE (Korean) Col. Ko Dongjun, Commander, UNMISS Korean Engineering Unit:
“We are using ten excavators and other vehicles and we brought fifteen ton dump trucks and we are committing around fifty personnel, the number of people and equipment will be increasing. The aim of this work is to stop the flood so we are making dyke on the southern side and that will stop the flooding from expanding to the northern side.”
Nhial Majak Nhial – Mayor of Bor said that he has received tremendous help and support from UNMISS Korean Engineering Unit for their immediate respond in assisting the locals in constructing a new dikes adjacent to the river Nile to prevent more flooding.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nhial Majak Nhial, Mayor of Bor:
“We have received tremendous help from the people of UNMISS specially from people of the Republic of South Korea, the South Korean Army they have been here overnight working with us and they came this morning again, they are trying all their best, they brought their machine, without their help this town would have been cut yesterday into two halves."
The Mayor added that so far there is no humanitarian assistance has reached Bor and he called on all the steak holders to respond immediately to help the displaced.
SOUNDBITE (English) Nhial Majak Nhial, Mayor of Bor:
“I am asking for all the humanitarian agencies to act quickly to provide non-food items and food items for the people that have been displaced here.”
The heavy rains had displaced hundreds of people from their homes, with over 1000 families being affected in the area, and more than 400 houses destroyed in some areas of Bor town after the river burst its banks.
A ministerial committee appointed to assess damage caused by flooding across the country has highlighted that close to 100,000 people have been affected by the recent floods.
The team headed by cabinet affairs Minister Martin Elia Lomuro said the displaced are in the six States of Warrap, Unity, Western Bhar el- Ghazal, Northern Bhar el-Ghazal, Jonglei and Upper Nile.
