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STORY: GA / SAHEL
TRT: 3.21
SOURCE: UNTV / OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
26 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Romano Prodi, UN Special Envoy for the Sahel:
"If all efforts aren’t made to improve the economic situation of the people of Sahel, particularly that of the young population through the creation of jobs and opportunities, the possibility of criminal and terrorist activities spreading further remain very, very, high.”
4. Wide shot, room
5. Med shot, Laurent Fabius, Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, walks up to the stakeout position
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
6. Close up, reporter’s notepad
26 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Fabius, Minister for Foreign Affairs of France:
"Security in the cities has been re-established, of course there could always be incidents, that’s why MINUSMA is deployed and French troops are staying on the ground. At the moment there are 3,200; we are going down to 2,000 in October, and 1,000 will stay after elections are held on 15 November to provide security against all terrorist groups.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
8. Close up, reporter’s notepad
26 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Laurent Fabius, Minister for Foreign Affairs of France:
"I believe that we can say that the situation has been re-established in Mali, but not quite yet in the entire Sahel region. The terrorists in Mali are currently neutralized, but they could re-emerge in other countries of the region.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
10. Close up, reporter’s notepad
26 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
11. Wide shot, Fabius walks away from the stakeout position
24 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
12. Med shot, over the shoulder view of Robert Piper talking to interviewer
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Piper, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel:
“The region remains extremely fragile. Last year certainly was much worse. We were emerging from one of the worst droughts on record. This year, millions of households are trying to recover from last year’s battering by nature. On top of this task, we’ve also been hit by manmade disaster; Northern Mali, refugees from Darfur and Central African Republic. So, the region as a whole is a region that’s turning a corner and there is turning a corner and there is a sense of optimism as compared to a year ago, but it is certainly still very fragile. In terms of humanitarian needs, 11,000,000 people are food insecure. We have almost 5,000,000 children that are acutely malnourished.”
FILE – RECENT, MALI
14. Various shots, people of Mali
Collective efforts in the Sahel region of Africa must address urgent humanitarian needs as well as long-term development and security threats, United Nations officials stressed today (26 September) in a meeting at the 68th session of the General Assembly in New York.
The Special Envoy for the Sahel, former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi,, told the meeting that “if all efforts aren’t made to improve the economic situation of the people of Sahel, particularly that of the young population through the creation of jobs and opportunities, the possibility of criminal and terrorist activities spreading further remain very, very, high.”
The Sahel stretches from Mauritania to Eritrea, including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan, a belt dividing the Sahara desert and the savannahs to the south.
After the meeting, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, Laurent Fabius, told reporters that "security in the cities has been re-established, of course there could always be incidents, that’s why MINUSMA is deployed and French troops are staying on the ground.”
Fabius said that at the moment there are 3,200 French troops on the ground which will be decreased to 1,000 “after elections are held on 15 November to provide security against all terrorist groups.”
He said that although the situation has been re-established in Mali, terrorism “could re-emerge in other countries of the region.”
Recently, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, Robert Piper, explained that “the region remains extremely fragile,” with “millions of households are trying to recover from last year’s battering by nature” and “manmade disaster”
Piper said that in terms of humanitarian needs, “11,000,000 people are food insecure. We have almost 5,000,000 children that are acutely malnourished.”
Political instability and unconstitutional changes in governments have had significant economic and social consequences in the region; terrorist acts, and transnational organized crime, including arms and drug trafficking, threaten stability; and authorities have limited capacity to deliver basic services and foster dialogue and citizen participation.
