UN / SUDAN CONFLICT DISPLACED
22-Aug-2023
00:01:56
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, Mamadou Dian Balde, said humanitarian access for Sudanese displaced persons “is of paramount importance,” and is “critical for the 3.6 million internally displaced persons that we have started seeing.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / SUDAN CONFLICT DISPLACED
TRT: 01:56
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
TRT: 01:56
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
22 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamadou Dian Balde, Director, Regional Bureau for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, UNHCR:
“Humanitarian access is of paramount importance. We really are facilitating access to the refugees in countries of asylum or to the IDPs within Sudan, as mentioned by our humanitarian coordinator, is really critical. It is critical for us it is critical for the 3.6 million internally displaced persons that we have started seeing.”
4. Wide shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamadou Dian Balde, Director, Regional Bureau for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, UNHCR:
“As we support and we try to respond to the needs, immediate needs around food, around health, around nutrition, where we already see major gaps. We also need - and major gaps that could be solved by humanitarian funding - we need the large development funding to come and to support systems. This way will not only make the asylum systems sustainable, but we will also be preventing the type of tensions that we have started seeing in some of the countries between refugees and host populations, host populations that are generous receiving the refugees, but host populations that do not have access to these services.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamadou Dian Balde, Director, Regional Bureau for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, UNHCR:
“UNHCR colleagues, and other UN colleagues and partners are staying, delivering during difficult times, despite the conflict and in light of all the risk associated with it, these colleagues have been able to stay and deliver, and to support population civilians.”
8. Wide shot, end of presser
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
22 AUGUST 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamadou Dian Balde, Director, Regional Bureau for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, UNHCR:
“Humanitarian access is of paramount importance. We really are facilitating access to the refugees in countries of asylum or to the IDPs within Sudan, as mentioned by our humanitarian coordinator, is really critical. It is critical for us it is critical for the 3.6 million internally displaced persons that we have started seeing.”
4. Wide shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamadou Dian Balde, Director, Regional Bureau for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, UNHCR:
“As we support and we try to respond to the needs, immediate needs around food, around health, around nutrition, where we already see major gaps. We also need - and major gaps that could be solved by humanitarian funding - we need the large development funding to come and to support systems. This way will not only make the asylum systems sustainable, but we will also be preventing the type of tensions that we have started seeing in some of the countries between refugees and host populations, host populations that are generous receiving the refugees, but host populations that do not have access to these services.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamadou Dian Balde, Director, Regional Bureau for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes and Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, UNHCR:
“UNHCR colleagues, and other UN colleagues and partners are staying, delivering during difficult times, despite the conflict and in light of all the risk associated with it, these colleagues have been able to stay and deliver, and to support population civilians.”
8. Wide shot, end of presser
STORYLINE
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan Situation, Mamadou Dian Balde, today (22 Aug) said humanitarian access for Sudanese displaced persons “is of paramount importance,” and is “critical for the 3.6 million internally displaced persons that we have started seeing.”
Briefing reporters in New York via video teleconference from White Nile State in Sudan on the needs and challenges faced by people displaced by the conflict, Balde said, there are “major” funding gaps “as we support and we try to respond to the needs, immediate needs around food, around health, around nutrition.”
He said “we need the large development funding to come and to support systems. This way will not only make the asylum systems sustainable, but we will also be preventing the type of tensions that we have started seeing in some of the countries between refugees and host populations, host populations that are generous receiving the refugees, but host populations that do not have access to these services.”
UNHCR and partners, Balde said, are “staying, delivering during difficult times, despite the conflict and in light of all the risk associated with it, these colleagues have been able to stay and deliver, and to support population civilians.”
There are an estimated 3.6 million Internally Displaced Persons in Sudan, and some 947,000 that have crossed the borders into neighbouring countries.
A 600 million US dollar appeal has so far been only 31 percent funded.
Briefing reporters in New York via video teleconference from White Nile State in Sudan on the needs and challenges faced by people displaced by the conflict, Balde said, there are “major” funding gaps “as we support and we try to respond to the needs, immediate needs around food, around health, around nutrition.”
He said “we need the large development funding to come and to support systems. This way will not only make the asylum systems sustainable, but we will also be preventing the type of tensions that we have started seeing in some of the countries between refugees and host populations, host populations that are generous receiving the refugees, but host populations that do not have access to these services.”
UNHCR and partners, Balde said, are “staying, delivering during difficult times, despite the conflict and in light of all the risk associated with it, these colleagues have been able to stay and deliver, and to support population civilians.”
There are an estimated 3.6 million Internally Displaced Persons in Sudan, and some 947,000 that have crossed the borders into neighbouring countries.
A 600 million US dollar appeal has so far been only 31 percent funded.
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