UNHCR / SOUTH SUDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS
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STORY: UNHCR / SOUTH SUDAN ASYLUM SEEKERS
TRT: 07:45
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: NATS
DATELINE: 25 – 28 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
SHOTLIST:
26 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, new arrivals in Renk Transit Centre
2. Various shots, families camping at centre
3. Close up, women seated in makeshift shelter talking
4. Med shot, families at site
5. Wide shot, Aziza Harba, Sudanese refugee and her family in makeshift shelter
6. Various shots, Aziza talking to her husband, Abdalla Abushakin
7. Med shot, Aziza, Abdalla and their baby
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aziza Harba Idriss, Sudanese Refugee:
“The war impacted our lives in many ways, I had a lot of things at home. I have never seen anything
like this before. Many children got lost, bombs destroyed our home, we lost our belongings. We also
lost some family members in this conflict and that is why we are displaced. I feared for my children
as well.”
9. Med shot, Aziza cooking meal / family in background
10. Various shots, Aziza cooking
11. Close up, Aziza serving meal
12. Various shots, family eating
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdalla Abushakin, Sudanese Refugee:
“Honestly, we don't have jobs right now. If people are not working, life becomes hard. Because of this
conflict we came with our families and there are no jobs that we can do to help us. I am not able to
work and put food on the table. We depend on aid agencies; I am helpless, and I can’t provide for my family.”
14. Med shot, people walking at centre
15. Close up, girl lying on mat
16. Med shot, people standing near housing structures
17. Close up, omen seated in makeshift structure
28 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
18. Various shots, Jimmy Ogwang, Associate Field Officer, UNHCR talking to new arrivals
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Ogwang, Associate Field Officer, UNHCR:
“The main challenge that we are having here is overcrowding because we are receiving on average
about 1,200 individuals per day. The onward movement is a bit slow compared to the number which
is coming in. On average onward movement right now is 350 individuals per day compared to 1,200.
This brings overcrowding. We also have challenges in health services, the health services we are
providing here is basically primary healthcare. We expect to do referrals to the Renk hospital which
is the main hospital here, but Renk hospital has a lot of challenges in terms of medical personnel, in
terms of medicines, in even infrastructure itself. Beside the health services, the food is another
issue, which is also a challenge affecting people. Right now, we are using cash instead of hot meals,
but it is for seven days. This is also not adequate incase the numbers stay on.”
25 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
20. Various shots, UNHCR bus with new arrivals from the border with Sudan
21. Various shots, new arrivals disembarking from bus
22. Med shot, people walking in and out of Transit Centre
23. Various shots, people walking in Centre
24. Various shots, woman and child
25. Various shots, family setting up tent
26. Wide shot, people walking in camp
27. Various shots, people covering structures from the rain
28. Various shots, rain pouring in Transit Centre/ People running
29. Various shots, structures hit by rain
30. Wide shot, people covering belongings from rain in room
31. Med shot, families sheltering from leaking roof
28 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Ogwang, Associate Field Officer, UNHCR:
“When it rains, you find the whole place is muddy. Generally, this place, the terrain is not so good.
The soil is too loose when the rains, so these are big challenges. But the one main one, which is
very important, is that right now we are not able to transport because the road is blocked. Now
UNHCR is working with partners to see how they can work on the roads, so that we are able to transport. That means refugees will stay here longer.”
27 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
33. Close up, reflection of women standing near puddle
34. Wide shot, people wading through mud at Transit Centre
35. Various shots, bed with luggage in pool of rainwater
36. Med shot, tent near flooded area
37. Close up, family in tent
38. Med shot, woman near flooded ground
39. Close up, woman near collapsed makeshift housing structure
40. Med shot, woman wading through floodwater
STORYLINE:
Families escaping conflict in Sudan continue to cross into remote border areas in South Sudan that lack infrastructure and services, forcing many to live in difficult conditions, now worsened with the onset of the rainy season.
Aziza Harba and her children hid under their beds whenever artillery strikes hit their neighbourhood in Khartoum, as fighting raged between Sudan’s paramilitary group, RSF and the army.
The family later fled the city in April to shelter with relatives in Al-Jazirah Province, near Khartoum. Three months later they fled to find safety in South Sudan.
Aziza and her husband, Abdalla raised 300 dollars from their savings to make the journey, a relative in Saudi Arabia also sent them some of the money to enable them transport, their eight children to the
Joda border crossing where they boarded a bus to the Renk transit centre. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is helping transport people from the border to the Renk transit centre, set up with other humanitarian partners. There, new arrivals are provided with basics such as food, water, blankets, mats and buckets, as well as emergency medical treatment. The centre currently hosts over 8,500 people.
New arrivals are reaching remote border areas, lacking infrastructure and services in South Sudan, as they flee conflict in neighbouring Sudan, making the humanitarian situation there deeply concerning. But this new emergency is straining an already stretched and underfunded response in a country that is still reeling from the devastation of a brutal seven-year civil war that ended in 2020.
Conditions in sites hosting new arrivals have deteriorated, now fuelled by congestion and the onset of the rainy season. There is a lack of health services, water, shelter and sanitation, for both the returnees, refugees and the host population. Children are especially at risk due to disease outbreaks resulting from poor health conditions in the area. The priority remains to facilitate onward movement for new arrivals to their places of origin or destination of choice, so as to avoid overcrowding and curb the spread of diseases.
The conflict in Sudan has seen over 230,000 refugees and returnees arrive in the country. While on a four-day visit to South Sudan, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called for more support for people fleeing the Sudan crisis as neighbouring countries continue to receive thousands of people daily. Grandi met returning South Sudanese and refugees in Aweil in the northwest.
South Sudan hosts more than 300,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, mainly from Sudan, in addition
to more than 2.2 million internally displaced people.
TRT: 07:45
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: NATS
DATELINE: 25 – 28 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
SHOTLIST:
26 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, new arrivals in Renk Transit Centre
2. Various shots, families camping at centre
3. Close up, women seated in makeshift shelter talking
4. Med shot, families at site
5. Wide shot, Aziza Harba, Sudanese refugee and her family in makeshift shelter
6. Various shots, Aziza talking to her husband, Abdalla Abushakin
7. Med shot, Aziza, Abdalla and their baby
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aziza Harba Idriss, Sudanese Refugee:
“The war impacted our lives in many ways, I had a lot of things at home. I have never seen anything
like this before. Many children got lost, bombs destroyed our home, we lost our belongings. We also
lost some family members in this conflict and that is why we are displaced. I feared for my children
as well.”
9. Med shot, Aziza cooking meal / family in background
10. Various shots, Aziza cooking
11. Close up, Aziza serving meal
12. Various shots, family eating
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdalla Abushakin, Sudanese Refugee:
“Honestly, we don't have jobs right now. If people are not working, life becomes hard. Because of this
conflict we came with our families and there are no jobs that we can do to help us. I am not able to
work and put food on the table. We depend on aid agencies; I am helpless, and I can’t provide for my family.”
14. Med shot, people walking at centre
15. Close up, girl lying on mat
16. Med shot, people standing near housing structures
17. Close up, omen seated in makeshift structure
28 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
18. Various shots, Jimmy Ogwang, Associate Field Officer, UNHCR talking to new arrivals
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Ogwang, Associate Field Officer, UNHCR:
“The main challenge that we are having here is overcrowding because we are receiving on average
about 1,200 individuals per day. The onward movement is a bit slow compared to the number which
is coming in. On average onward movement right now is 350 individuals per day compared to 1,200.
This brings overcrowding. We also have challenges in health services, the health services we are
providing here is basically primary healthcare. We expect to do referrals to the Renk hospital which
is the main hospital here, but Renk hospital has a lot of challenges in terms of medical personnel, in
terms of medicines, in even infrastructure itself. Beside the health services, the food is another
issue, which is also a challenge affecting people. Right now, we are using cash instead of hot meals,
but it is for seven days. This is also not adequate incase the numbers stay on.”
25 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
20. Various shots, UNHCR bus with new arrivals from the border with Sudan
21. Various shots, new arrivals disembarking from bus
22. Med shot, people walking in and out of Transit Centre
23. Various shots, people walking in Centre
24. Various shots, woman and child
25. Various shots, family setting up tent
26. Wide shot, people walking in camp
27. Various shots, people covering structures from the rain
28. Various shots, rain pouring in Transit Centre/ People running
29. Various shots, structures hit by rain
30. Wide shot, people covering belongings from rain in room
31. Med shot, families sheltering from leaking roof
28 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Ogwang, Associate Field Officer, UNHCR:
“When it rains, you find the whole place is muddy. Generally, this place, the terrain is not so good.
The soil is too loose when the rains, so these are big challenges. But the one main one, which is
very important, is that right now we are not able to transport because the road is blocked. Now
UNHCR is working with partners to see how they can work on the roads, so that we are able to transport. That means refugees will stay here longer.”
27 AUGUST 2023, RENK COUNTY, SOUTH SUDAN
33. Close up, reflection of women standing near puddle
34. Wide shot, people wading through mud at Transit Centre
35. Various shots, bed with luggage in pool of rainwater
36. Med shot, tent near flooded area
37. Close up, family in tent
38. Med shot, woman near flooded ground
39. Close up, woman near collapsed makeshift housing structure
40. Med shot, woman wading through floodwater
STORYLINE:
Families escaping conflict in Sudan continue to cross into remote border areas in South Sudan that lack infrastructure and services, forcing many to live in difficult conditions, now worsened with the onset of the rainy season.
Aziza Harba and her children hid under their beds whenever artillery strikes hit their neighbourhood in Khartoum, as fighting raged between Sudan’s paramilitary group, RSF and the army.
The family later fled the city in April to shelter with relatives in Al-Jazirah Province, near Khartoum. Three months later they fled to find safety in South Sudan.
Aziza and her husband, Abdalla raised 300 dollars from their savings to make the journey, a relative in Saudi Arabia also sent them some of the money to enable them transport, their eight children to the
Joda border crossing where they boarded a bus to the Renk transit centre. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is helping transport people from the border to the Renk transit centre, set up with other humanitarian partners. There, new arrivals are provided with basics such as food, water, blankets, mats and buckets, as well as emergency medical treatment. The centre currently hosts over 8,500 people.
New arrivals are reaching remote border areas, lacking infrastructure and services in South Sudan, as they flee conflict in neighbouring Sudan, making the humanitarian situation there deeply concerning. But this new emergency is straining an already stretched and underfunded response in a country that is still reeling from the devastation of a brutal seven-year civil war that ended in 2020.
Conditions in sites hosting new arrivals have deteriorated, now fuelled by congestion and the onset of the rainy season. There is a lack of health services, water, shelter and sanitation, for both the returnees, refugees and the host population. Children are especially at risk due to disease outbreaks resulting from poor health conditions in the area. The priority remains to facilitate onward movement for new arrivals to their places of origin or destination of choice, so as to avoid overcrowding and curb the spread of diseases.
The conflict in Sudan has seen over 230,000 refugees and returnees arrive in the country. While on a four-day visit to South Sudan, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called for more support for people fleeing the Sudan crisis as neighbouring countries continue to receive thousands of people daily. Grandi met returning South Sudanese and refugees in Aweil in the northwest.
South Sudan hosts more than 300,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, mainly from Sudan, in addition
to more than 2.2 million internally displaced people.
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