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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / FAMINE
TRT: 1.22
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 15 MARCH 2014, BOR, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, IDP Camp in Bor
2. Pan right, Lanzer walking with Humanitarian workers
3. Med shot, Lanzer sitting with IDP’s.
4. Med shot, woman breastfeeding baby
5. SOUNDBITE: Toby Lanzer, Resident Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations in South Sudan:
“If the planting season couldn’t happen or it was lost, well then there won’t be a harvest. It should be plainly obvious to the leaders and to the different communities in South Sudan what that really spells.”
6. Med shot, Lanzer talking with IDP Community Leader.
7. SOUNDBITE: Toby Lanzer, Resident Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations in South Sudan:
“The challenge here is immense and we are really up against it so I’m counting on the goodwill of the International Community, the goodwill of the Donor Community, to stand with us and for professional seasoned Emergency Programme officers and non-governmental organizations to join us to join the effort. To stand with South Sudan in its greatest hour of need.”
8. Pan left, two women walking
With the country bordering on a famine and its greatest humanitarian crisis in years because of the conflict and the growing food insecurity situation, the residents of the world’s youngest nation could find themselves in a very bad situation very soon.
Toby Lanzer, Resident Humanitarian Coordinator for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, on his trip to Bor in Jonglei State said that the worst case scenario for the people of South Sudan is that they are unable to plant and cultivate and that they are unable to look after their livestock.
With hundreds of thousands of residents having fled their homes for safer territories in UN Compounds and neighboring countries it would be hard for residents to plant and cultivate crops being displaced as they are. This makes the idea of a famine in South Sudan seem very real.
With the Peace Talks in Ethiopia faltering and the crisis creating an even bigger security situation in the country, trying to avert a disaster will be a very big challenge at this time. Presently 4.9 Million people are in need of humanitarian aid.
However, Humanitarian Organizations have only been able to reach 758,400 people thus far.
