GENEVA / SOMALI REFUGEES KENYA
06-Dec-2022
00:01:50
The UN refugee agency said today that tens of thousands of people have recently sought shelter at Kenya’s Dadaab camps, forced from their homes by extremist violence in neighbouring Somalia and “unrelenting” drought. UNTV CH
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STORY: GENEVA / SOMALI REFUGEES KENYA
TRT: 01:50
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 DECEMBER 2022 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
TRT: 01:50
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 DECEMBER 2022 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot, UN Geneva flag alley
2. Wide shot, press room, journalists seated, podium speakers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“More than 80,000 people have arrived in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, the majority have arrived over the past two years, fleeing ongoing insecurity in Somalia and the unrelenting drought; the longest and most severe in decades.”
4. Close up, hands holding a mobile phone to take a photograph of the speaker appearing through the TV camera viewfinder
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“A cholera outbreak has been affecting refugee and host communities. Over 350 cases have been identified since the end of October. Those are mainly affected children.”
6. Close up, hands typing on laptop keyboard
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“In one area that UNHCR teams recently visited, a family was hosting up to 28 people, eight of them had already been infected. Treatment centres need more personnel and supplies to help curb any further spread of the disease.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Malnourished children are being screened and admitted to stabilization centres. Plans are under way to boost assistance by underway additional basic relief items including dignity kits for women and girls.”
10. Med shot, podium speaker viewed from over a journalist’s shoulder
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Adequate space in the camps, where the newly arrived are sheltered, is running out, forcing many to reside in makeshift shelters along the outskirts, where clean water and sanitation facilities are either grossly insufficient or non-existent.”
12. Med shot, participant listening to press conference with headphones
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Some 4.5 million Kenyans, mainly in the northern and eastern parts of the country, are also battling with the effects of the devastating drought.”
14. Close up, speaker’s image shown in the TV camera viewfinder and on a screen to rear
15. Med shot, journalists, seated
16. Med shot, journalist, seated
2. Wide shot, press room, journalists seated, podium speakers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“More than 80,000 people have arrived in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, the majority have arrived over the past two years, fleeing ongoing insecurity in Somalia and the unrelenting drought; the longest and most severe in decades.”
4. Close up, hands holding a mobile phone to take a photograph of the speaker appearing through the TV camera viewfinder
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“A cholera outbreak has been affecting refugee and host communities. Over 350 cases have been identified since the end of October. Those are mainly affected children.”
6. Close up, hands typing on laptop keyboard
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“In one area that UNHCR teams recently visited, a family was hosting up to 28 people, eight of them had already been infected. Treatment centres need more personnel and supplies to help curb any further spread of the disease.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Malnourished children are being screened and admitted to stabilization centres. Plans are under way to boost assistance by underway additional basic relief items including dignity kits for women and girls.”
10. Med shot, podium speaker viewed from over a journalist’s shoulder
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Adequate space in the camps, where the newly arrived are sheltered, is running out, forcing many to reside in makeshift shelters along the outskirts, where clean water and sanitation facilities are either grossly insufficient or non-existent.”
12. Med shot, participant listening to press conference with headphones
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Cheshirkov, Spokesperson, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Some 4.5 million Kenyans, mainly in the northern and eastern parts of the country, are also battling with the effects of the devastating drought.”
14. Close up, speaker’s image shown in the TV camera viewfinder and on a screen to rear
15. Med shot, journalists, seated
16. Med shot, journalist, seated
STORYLINE
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said today (6 Dec) tens of thousands of people have sought shelter in recent weeks at Kenya’s Dadaab camps, forced from their homes by extremist violence in neighbouring Somalia and “unrelenting” drought.
An estimated 24,000 people have arrived at the camp complex since the end of September, some of the more than 80,000 taken in there in the past two years, according to UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov.
Despite a recent drop in daily arrivals at Dadaab, an arid outpost in northeast Kenya, adequate space in the camps is running out, Cheshirkov added.
This has forced many to construct makeshift shelters along the outskirts of the camps, “where clean water and sanitation facilities are either grossly insufficient or non-existent.”
Even more worrying is the cholera outbreak that has affected host and refugee communities.
“Over 350 cases have been identified since the end of October; those are mainly affected children,” the UNHCR spokesperson noted.
“In one area that UNHCR teams recently visited, a family was hosting up to 28 people, eight of them had already been infected,” he continued.
“Treatment centres need more personnel and supplies to help curb any further spread of the disease.”
Help has been provided to the new arrivals, including clean drinking water and extended sanitation and hygiene facilities at the outskirts of the camps.
Targeted protection services have also been put in place for the most vulnerable.
“Malnourished children are being screened and admitted to stabilization centres,” Cheshirkov explained.
“Plans are underway to boost assistance by providing additional basic relief items, including dignity kits for women and girls” at Dadaab’s Dagahaley, Ifo, and Hagadera camps.
Working with partners, the UN agency is also assisting host communities surrounding Dadaab by rehabilitating boreholes, providing generators for water pumps, and trucking in water.
UNHCR has also planned additional treatment centres to boost healthcare access for new arrivals and to prepare for future cholera infections.
Meanwhile, humanitarians remain deeply concerned about the continued failed rains and drought in the Horn of Africa region, which Cheshirkov described as “the longest and most severe” in decades.
“Some 4.5 million Kenyans, mainly in the northern and eastern parts of the country, are also battling with the effects of the devastating drought,” he explained.
An estimated 24,000 people have arrived at the camp complex since the end of September, some of the more than 80,000 taken in there in the past two years, according to UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov.
Despite a recent drop in daily arrivals at Dadaab, an arid outpost in northeast Kenya, adequate space in the camps is running out, Cheshirkov added.
This has forced many to construct makeshift shelters along the outskirts of the camps, “where clean water and sanitation facilities are either grossly insufficient or non-existent.”
Even more worrying is the cholera outbreak that has affected host and refugee communities.
“Over 350 cases have been identified since the end of October; those are mainly affected children,” the UNHCR spokesperson noted.
“In one area that UNHCR teams recently visited, a family was hosting up to 28 people, eight of them had already been infected,” he continued.
“Treatment centres need more personnel and supplies to help curb any further spread of the disease.”
Help has been provided to the new arrivals, including clean drinking water and extended sanitation and hygiene facilities at the outskirts of the camps.
Targeted protection services have also been put in place for the most vulnerable.
“Malnourished children are being screened and admitted to stabilization centres,” Cheshirkov explained.
“Plans are underway to boost assistance by providing additional basic relief items, including dignity kits for women and girls” at Dadaab’s Dagahaley, Ifo, and Hagadera camps.
Working with partners, the UN agency is also assisting host communities surrounding Dadaab by rehabilitating boreholes, providing generators for water pumps, and trucking in water.
UNHCR has also planned additional treatment centres to boost healthcare access for new arrivals and to prepare for future cholera infections.
Meanwhile, humanitarians remain deeply concerned about the continued failed rains and drought in the Horn of Africa region, which Cheshirkov described as “the longest and most severe” in decades.
“Some 4.5 million Kenyans, mainly in the northern and eastern parts of the country, are also battling with the effects of the devastating drought,” he explained.
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