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STORY: UN / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
TRT: 3:01
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
6 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Humanitarian Coordinator for CAR sitting, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“CAR is utterly Africa's overlooked middle child, one that is squeezed, landlocked, and often forgotten inside a troubled region.”
4. Med shot, speakers, press room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“CAR needs longer-term solutions. We cannot continue really just doing firefighting. The time to think about long-term solutions is right.”
6. Med shot, speakers, press room
7. Wide shot, briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“In 2023, 3.4 million people, which is about 56 percent of the population, are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Repeated confrontation between various parties to the conflict results in a continuously volatile security situation, causing population movements. One in five Central Africans is either internally displaced or has found refuge in a neighboring country.”
9. Wide shot, briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“Every hour, two women or girls are victims of gender-based violence, with over 11,000 cases reported in the first six months of 2023. The real number is actually much higher than that because, as you all know, these cases are not always reported. At the same time, the response to GBV is one of the most underfunded in CAR, unfortunately.”
11. Wide shot, briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“It is notable and laudable, despite these challenges, that CAR, over the past few months, has welcomed 56,000 refugees and returnees from both Sudan and Chad. 80,000 from Sudan, 38,000 from Chad.”
13. Wide shot, briefing room
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Virginie Baikoua, Minister for Humanitarian Action, Central African Republic (CAR):
“We have a strategy: to do emergency where there is insecurity, and development where is stability.”
15. Wide shot, briefing room
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
16. Wide shot, exterior, UN flag
6 SEPTEMBER AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“CAR should not be forgotten. The people of CAR should not be forgotten because of the crisis in the region, Sudan, for example, or because they are global crises like the crisis in Ukraine. The International Committee has been extremely generous to the people of CAR for many years, and this is not the time to actually let them down.”
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
17. Wide shot, exterior, UN flag
STORYLINE:
Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic (CAR), said the country is “utterly Africa's overlooked middle child, one that is squeezed, landlocked, and often forgotten inside a troubled region.”
The humanitarian crisis in CAR is worsening.
Due to violence against civilians and insecurity in areas outside urban centers, several million people remain vulnerable, their livelihoods are eroding, and they have limited access to food and basic services, such as water, health care, and education.
Addressing journalists today (6 Sep) in New York on the humanitarian situation, response, and challenges in CAR, Ag Ayoya expressed the country’s need for longer-term solutions.
“We cannot continue really just doing firefighting. The time to think about long-term solutions is right,” he stated.
Earlier this morning, during a briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in CAR, Ag Ayoya noted, “In 2023, 3.4 million people, which is about 56 percent of the population, are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Repeated confrontation between various parties to the conflict results in a continuously volatile security situation, causing population movements. One in five Central Africans is either internally displaced or has found refuge in a neighboring country.”
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), CAR now has one of the world’s highest proportions of critically food-insecure people.
This deepening food insecurity has forced families to adopt extreme coping methods that have caused an increase in gender-based violence (GBV), affecting thousands of women and girls.
“Every hour,” Ag Ayoya said, “two women or girls are victims of gender-based violence, with over 11,000 cases reported in the first six months of 2023. The real number is actually much higher than that because, as you all know, these cases are not always reported.”
At the same time, he added, the response to gender-based violence is among the most underfunded.
Five of the 10 sub-prefectures that recorded an increase in GBV cases are in phase 4 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale, just one step away from famine.
Also speaking at today’s briefing on CAR, Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, “It is notable and laudable, despite these challenges, that CAR, over the past few months, has welcomed 56,000 refugees and returnees from both Sudan and Chad. 80,000 from Sudan, 38,000 from Chad.”
Representing her country, Virginie Baikoua, CAR’s Minister for Humanitarian Action, said, “We have a strategy: to do emergency where there is insecurity, and development where is stability.”
In an interview in New York, Mohamed Ag Ayoya pleaded for CAR not to be forgotten.
He concluded, “The people of CAR should not be forgotten because of the crisis in the region, Sudan, for example, or because they are global crises like the crisis in Ukraine. The International Committee has been extremely generous to the people of Card for many years, and this is not the time to actually let them down.”
TRT: 3:01
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST:
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
6 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Humanitarian Coordinator for CAR sitting, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“CAR is utterly Africa's overlooked middle child, one that is squeezed, landlocked, and often forgotten inside a troubled region.”
4. Med shot, speakers, press room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“CAR needs longer-term solutions. We cannot continue really just doing firefighting. The time to think about long-term solutions is right.”
6. Med shot, speakers, press room
7. Wide shot, briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“In 2023, 3.4 million people, which is about 56 percent of the population, are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Repeated confrontation between various parties to the conflict results in a continuously volatile security situation, causing population movements. One in five Central Africans is either internally displaced or has found refuge in a neighboring country.”
9. Wide shot, briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“Every hour, two women or girls are victims of gender-based violence, with over 11,000 cases reported in the first six months of 2023. The real number is actually much higher than that because, as you all know, these cases are not always reported. At the same time, the response to GBV is one of the most underfunded in CAR, unfortunately.”
11. Wide shot, briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“It is notable and laudable, despite these challenges, that CAR, over the past few months, has welcomed 56,000 refugees and returnees from both Sudan and Chad. 80,000 from Sudan, 38,000 from Chad.”
13. Wide shot, briefing room
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Virginie Baikoua, Minister for Humanitarian Action, Central African Republic (CAR):
“We have a strategy: to do emergency where there is insecurity, and development where is stability.”
15. Wide shot, briefing room
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
16. Wide shot, exterior, UN flag
6 SEPTEMBER AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator / Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA):
“CAR should not be forgotten. The people of CAR should not be forgotten because of the crisis in the region, Sudan, for example, or because they are global crises like the crisis in Ukraine. The International Committee has been extremely generous to the people of CAR for many years, and this is not the time to actually let them down.”
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
17. Wide shot, exterior, UN flag
STORYLINE:
Mohamed Ag Ayoya, Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic (CAR), said the country is “utterly Africa's overlooked middle child, one that is squeezed, landlocked, and often forgotten inside a troubled region.”
The humanitarian crisis in CAR is worsening.
Due to violence against civilians and insecurity in areas outside urban centers, several million people remain vulnerable, their livelihoods are eroding, and they have limited access to food and basic services, such as water, health care, and education.
Addressing journalists today (6 Sep) in New York on the humanitarian situation, response, and challenges in CAR, Ag Ayoya expressed the country’s need for longer-term solutions.
“We cannot continue really just doing firefighting. The time to think about long-term solutions is right,” he stated.
Earlier this morning, during a briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in CAR, Ag Ayoya noted, “In 2023, 3.4 million people, which is about 56 percent of the population, are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Repeated confrontation between various parties to the conflict results in a continuously volatile security situation, causing population movements. One in five Central Africans is either internally displaced or has found refuge in a neighboring country.”
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), CAR now has one of the world’s highest proportions of critically food-insecure people.
This deepening food insecurity has forced families to adopt extreme coping methods that have caused an increase in gender-based violence (GBV), affecting thousands of women and girls.
“Every hour,” Ag Ayoya said, “two women or girls are victims of gender-based violence, with over 11,000 cases reported in the first six months of 2023. The real number is actually much higher than that because, as you all know, these cases are not always reported.”
At the same time, he added, the response to gender-based violence is among the most underfunded.
Five of the 10 sub-prefectures that recorded an increase in GBV cases are in phase 4 of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale, just one step away from famine.
Also speaking at today’s briefing on CAR, Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, “It is notable and laudable, despite these challenges, that CAR, over the past few months, has welcomed 56,000 refugees and returnees from both Sudan and Chad. 80,000 from Sudan, 38,000 from Chad.”
Representing her country, Virginie Baikoua, CAR’s Minister for Humanitarian Action, said, “We have a strategy: to do emergency where there is insecurity, and development where is stability.”
In an interview in New York, Mohamed Ag Ayoya pleaded for CAR not to be forgotten.
He concluded, “The people of CAR should not be forgotten because of the crisis in the region, Sudan, for example, or because they are global crises like the crisis in Ukraine. The International Committee has been extremely generous to the people of Card for many years, and this is not the time to actually let them down.”
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