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STORY: SOMALIA / DROUGHT
TRT: 03:27
SOURCE: UNSOM
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNSOM ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 FEBRUARY 2022, HARGEISA, SOMALIA
1. Med shot, Adam Abdelmoula going to board the plane
2. Med shot, Adam Abdelmoula reading notes on the plane
3. Close up, Adam Abdelmoula reading notes
4. Wide shot, Aerial shot, Hargeisa town
5. Med shot, Adam Abdelmoula alighting from the plane
6. Med shot, convoy
7. Med shot, Adam Abdelmoula alighting from the vehicle
8. Med shot, Adam Abdelmoula, UN staff
9. Med shot, Adam Abdelmoula, WFP staff demonstrating how the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards work
10. Close up, official inputting data into the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
11. Med shot, Adam Abdelmoula, WFP staff demonstrating how the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards work
12. Wide shot, Adam Abdelmoula, community members standing in line to register for their Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
13. Med shot, Community members registering for their Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
14. Med shot, Community members waiting to register
15. Close up, IDP camp resident displaying registration’s receipt
16. Various shots, Adam Abdelmoula being shown how IDP camp residents can buy goods at the market using the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
17. Close up, official writing a receipt for goods purchased using the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
18. Various shots, Adam Abdelmoula being shown how residents at the IDP camp can buy goods at the market using the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
19. Wide shot, IDP camp residents registering for the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
20. Med shot, official entering in the card details into a computer
21. Med shot, IDP camp residents registering for the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE cards
22. Various shots, IDP resident walking with WFP official to the market
23. Various shots, IDP resident buying goods at the market using the Cash-Based Transfer SCOPE card
24. Med shot, goods being unloaded from a truck
25. Pan shot, IDP’s dwellings
26. Various shots, women walking in the IDP camp
27. Close up, saucepan, plate
28. Wide shot, assembled IDP camp residents
29. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Adam Abdelmoula Deputy Special Representative for Somalia, and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM):
“What we need to do is to invest more in the areas of origin of these newly displaced communities to ensure that they stay in their areas and also enhance the social services in the areas that have already seen significant arrivals of people because of the drought.”
30. Wide shot, Adam Abdelmoula, and UN staff walking
31. Wide shot, Adam Abdelmoula inspecting water well in the IDP camp
32. Wide shot, Adam Abdelmoula, UN staff in the IDP camp
33. Close up, water well
34. Various shots, Adam Abdelmoula, UN staff in the IDP camp
35. Wide shot, Grazing land
During a recent two-day visit, Adam Abdelmoula, Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, toured the drought-affected area of Cunaqabad, Hargeisa, where he witnessed the effects of the ongoing drought and interacted with displaced families in vulnerable conditions.
Abdelmoula noted a number increase in displaced families arriving from other drought-hit parts of the country, seeking refuge in Somaliland.
“This is further stretching the thin resources available to the local communities,” he said. “There is a need for increasing investments in durable solutions in the drought-prone regions and enhancing the delivery of social services in areas hosting displaced communities.”
Abdelmoula added that Somaliland leaders had shared similar views on the need for durable solutions, enhancing the resilience of communities, and investing in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
“What we need to do is invest more in the areas of origin of these newly displaced communities to ensure that they can safely stay home, and in parallel enhance the social services in the areas that have seen significant arrivals of people because of the drought,” Abdelmoula said.
According to the Drought Rescue Committee in Somaliland, the persistent failure of rains in the Awdal, Marodijex, Sahil, Sanag, Sool, and Togdheer regions has led to severe drought conditions that have displaced 810,000 people and decimated crops and livestock.
In the 2022 Somalia Humanitarian Response Plan, the United Nations seeks to raise nearly US $1.5 billion to provide humanitarian assistance to 5.5 million vulnerable people, including 1.6 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), 3.9 million non-IDPs, and people with disabilities.
