15 Jan 2013

GENEVA / MALI UPDATE

Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing the latest outbreak of fighting in Malithat has led to French air strikes against Islamist strongholds in the northern part of the country, the United Nations said today. CH UNTV

Posted at: January 15, 2013 1:02 pm

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STORY: GENEVA / MALI UPDATE
TRT: 1.33
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 JANUARY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

SHOTLIST:

FILE – 2011, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Cutaway, exterior, Palais des Nations.

15 JANUARY 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Zoom out, from UN sign to podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Spokesperson for OCHA: 
"The number of IDPs is estimated is at about 330,000 as of yesterday."
4. Cutaway, journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jens Laerke, Spokesperson for OCHA: 
"This renewed fighting in Mali, particularly Central and Northern Mali as we know comes at the time when it is estimated that 4.2 million Malians will need humanitarian help in 2013."
6. Cutaway, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Marixie Mercado, Spokesperson, UNICEF: 
"There are large numbers of displaced people, and our major concern is that children are separated from their families, which can make them much more vulnerable to many forms of abuse, including recruitment and sexual violence."
8. Cutaway, journalist 
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Elisabeth Byrs, Spokesperson, World Food Programme: 
"Ms. Elisabeth Byrs, Spokesperson, World Food Programme: "In 2013 WFP aims to reach around 400,000 persons in Tambouktou Gao and Kidam, people who need assistance and also in 2013 to reach 130,000 displaced persons who are lodged in host families in the south. Currently the operation costs $ 137 million and we have received very little. We are lacking 94 per cent of all our operations and we are still lacking is 129 million dollars. "
10. Wide shot, table of journalists, Press Room III, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
 
12. Cut a way, cameraman, Press Room III, Palais des Nations, Geneva.

STORYLINE:

Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing the latest outbreak of fighting in Mali that has led to French air strikes against Islamist strongholds in the northern part of the country, the United Nations said today (15 January).

Conflict in the north of the country has triggered widespread displacement within Mali and into neighbouring countries, uprooting half a million people and placing pressure on vulnerable host communities still recovering from the Sahel drought.

Briefing reporters in Geneva, Jens Laerke, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, "The number of IDPs is estimated is at about 330,000 as of yesterday", adding that it was estimated that "4.2 million Malians will need humanitarian help in 2013."

Also briefing journalists, the UN Children's fund (UNICEF) warned that the large numbers of displaced people could lead to families being separated.

Marixie Mercado, UNICEF's Spokesperson said that "there are large numbers of displaced people, and our major concern is that children are separated from their families, which can make them much more vulnerable to many forms of abuse, including recruitment and sexual violence."

Elisabeth Byrs, the World Food Program's spokesperson said that WFP's projects to assist Malians were 96 per cent underfunded. She the goal for this year is to reach nearly 400'00 people in need in Tambouktou, Gao and Kidam, and also to serve 130,000 IDPs lodging with other families- in the south of the country.

Filed under FEDERATION OF MALI OCHA - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund WFP - United Nations World Food Programme.