21 Aug 2012

SUDAN / WFP AIR DROP

The United Nations World Food Programme has begun a series of airdrops to replenish rapidly diminishing food stocks for more than 100,000 people in South Sudan who have fled fighting in Sudan. WFP

Posted at: August 21, 2012 11:23 am

Duration: 01:45

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STORY: SUDAN / WFP AIR DROP
TRT: 1.45
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RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 AUGUST 2012, GAMBELLA AIRPORT, ETHIOPIA / 15 AUGUST 2012, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN / 16 AUGUST 2012, AWEIL, NORTHERN BAHR EL GHAZAL STATE, SOUTH SUDAN

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15 AUGUST 2012, MABAN COUNTY, UPPER NILE STATE, SOUTH SUDAN

1. Various shots, food dropping food from WFP chartered plane

14 AUGUST 2012, GAMBELLA AIRPORT, ETHIOPIA

2. Various shots, loading of 32 tons of WFP wheat flour on WFP chartered plane

16 AUGUST 2012, AWEIL, NORTHERN Bahr El Ghazal STATE, SOUTH SUDAN

3. Tracking shot, flooded fields
4. Various shots, women working on crops 
5. Med shot, WFP Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin visiting the site and talking to community leader  Elisabeth Abuk
6. Various shots, women farmers hoeing in a maize field

STORYLINE:

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun a series of airdrops to replenish rapidly diminishing food stocks for more than 100,000 people in South Sudan who have fled fighting in Sudan.

On Wednesday afternoon (15 August), 32 metric tons of wheat was flown to refugee settlements in Maban County in the year-old nation's Upper Nile State, where WFP's Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, was on official visit.

The wheat shipment was loaded and flown from Ethiopia and was enough to feed 2,100 people for a month, but the ultimate aim was to build resiliency, WFP said.

There are some 170,000 Sudanese refugees currently in South Sudan, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with more arriving from Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states every day after fleeing conflict and food shortages. Most of the new arrivals are dehydrated and malnourished, UNHCR said.

South Kordofan and Blue Nile, which lie on the border with South Sudan, have been beset by fighting between Sudanese forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) since last year. The SPLM-N was previously part of the rebel movement that fought for the independence of South Sudan.