UN / MALI UPDATE
27-Sep-2023
00:02:52
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is “deeply concerned” by escalating tensions and clashes in parts of northern and eastern Mali, including Timbuktu, Gao and Menaka, a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED
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DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
TRT: 2:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
27 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said today it is deeply concerned by escalating tensions and clashes in parts of northern and eastern Mali, including Timbuktu, Gao and Menaka. Humanitarian agencies continue to provide assistance, reaching 1.2 million people across the country so far this year. However, this is only a fraction of the 9 million people who need humanitarian assistance across the whole of Mali.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“They also urgently need additional resources to ensure critical enabling services are in place for humanitarian action, including logistics and mine action activities. The $752 million Humanitarian Response Plan for Mali is only 22 percent funded with critical sectors facing even bigger funding gaps. For example, food security is 18 percent funded; Health: 17 percent funded; Water Sanitation and Hygiene, only14 percent funded. We need more cash.”
6. Wide shot, briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“On the peacekeeping end. Our peacekeepers in Mali are continuing their activities to draw down and withdraw from the country in an extremely challenging security environment, to say the least. Our colleagues from the ground report that clashes in recent weeks in the Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu regions are impacting the Mission’s drawdown and withdrawal plan.”
8. Med shot, journalists
SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Contingency plans are also in place, in case the security situation continues to deteriorate, as it executes the next phase of the drawdown and withdrawal plan that will include the closure of Tessalit and Aguelhok bases, in the North, and the camp in Douentza, in central Mali, over the next three months.”
9. Wide shot, briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Up until now, and as we mentioned, four of the 13 bases – namely: Ogossagou, Ber, Goundam and Menaka – have been vacated and handed over to the competent Malian authorities.”
11. Med shot, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“From 1 October onwards, the Mission will use its remaining capacities to focus on its safe and orderly drawdown and withdrawal. In line with Security Council resolution 2690, the Mission will no longer be authorized, nor will it have the means and capacities to respond to imminent threats of violence against the civilian population or to contribute to the safe civilian-led delivery of humanitarian goods and services.”
13. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
27 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said today it is deeply concerned by escalating tensions and clashes in parts of northern and eastern Mali, including Timbuktu, Gao and Menaka. Humanitarian agencies continue to provide assistance, reaching 1.2 million people across the country so far this year. However, this is only a fraction of the 9 million people who need humanitarian assistance across the whole of Mali.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“They also urgently need additional resources to ensure critical enabling services are in place for humanitarian action, including logistics and mine action activities. The $752 million Humanitarian Response Plan for Mali is only 22 percent funded with critical sectors facing even bigger funding gaps. For example, food security is 18 percent funded; Health: 17 percent funded; Water Sanitation and Hygiene, only14 percent funded. We need more cash.”
6. Wide shot, briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“On the peacekeeping end. Our peacekeepers in Mali are continuing their activities to draw down and withdraw from the country in an extremely challenging security environment, to say the least. Our colleagues from the ground report that clashes in recent weeks in the Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu regions are impacting the Mission’s drawdown and withdrawal plan.”
8. Med shot, journalists
SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Contingency plans are also in place, in case the security situation continues to deteriorate, as it executes the next phase of the drawdown and withdrawal plan that will include the closure of Tessalit and Aguelhok bases, in the North, and the camp in Douentza, in central Mali, over the next three months.”
9. Wide shot, briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Up until now, and as we mentioned, four of the 13 bases – namely: Ogossagou, Ber, Goundam and Menaka – have been vacated and handed over to the competent Malian authorities.”
11. Med shot, journalists
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“From 1 October onwards, the Mission will use its remaining capacities to focus on its safe and orderly drawdown and withdrawal. In line with Security Council resolution 2690, the Mission will no longer be authorized, nor will it have the means and capacities to respond to imminent threats of violence against the civilian population or to contribute to the safe civilian-led delivery of humanitarian goods and services.”
13. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away
STORYLINE
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is “deeply concerned” by escalating tensions and clashes in parts of northern and eastern Mali, including Timbuktu, Gao and Menaka, a UN spokesperson said.
Briefing journalists today (27 Sep) in New York, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “Humanitarian agencies continue to provide assistance, reaching 1.2 million people across the country so far this year. However, this is only a fraction of the 9 million people who need humanitarian assistance across the whole of Mali.”
He added that humanitarians “also urgently need additional resources to ensure critical enabling services are in place for humanitarian action, including logistics and mine action activities.”
Dujarric said, “the $752 million Humanitarian Response Plan for Mali is only 22 percent funded with critical sectors facing even bigger funding gaps. For example, food security is 18 percent funded; Health: 17 percent funded; Water Sanitation and Hygiene, only 14 percent funded.”
He stressed, “We need more cash.”
On the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the Spokesperson said, “our peacekeepers in Mali are continuing their activities to draw down and withdraw from the country in an extremely challenging security environment, to say the least.”
He continued, “our colleagues from the ground report that clashes in recent weeks in the Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu regions are impacting the Mission’s drawdown and withdrawal plan.”
According to Dujarric, “up until now, and as we mentioned, four of the 13 bases – namely: Ogossagou, Ber, Goundam and Menaka – have been vacated and handed over to the competent Malian authorities.”
Dujarric concluded, “from 1 October onwards, the Mission will use its remaining capacities to focus on its safe and orderly drawdown and withdrawal. In line with Security Council resolution 2690, the Mission will no longer be authorized, nor will it have the means and capacities to respond to imminent threats of violence against the civilian population or to contribute to the safe civilian-led delivery of humanitarian goods and services”
Briefing journalists today (27 Sep) in New York, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “Humanitarian agencies continue to provide assistance, reaching 1.2 million people across the country so far this year. However, this is only a fraction of the 9 million people who need humanitarian assistance across the whole of Mali.”
He added that humanitarians “also urgently need additional resources to ensure critical enabling services are in place for humanitarian action, including logistics and mine action activities.”
Dujarric said, “the $752 million Humanitarian Response Plan for Mali is only 22 percent funded with critical sectors facing even bigger funding gaps. For example, food security is 18 percent funded; Health: 17 percent funded; Water Sanitation and Hygiene, only 14 percent funded.”
He stressed, “We need more cash.”
On the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the Spokesperson said, “our peacekeepers in Mali are continuing their activities to draw down and withdraw from the country in an extremely challenging security environment, to say the least.”
He continued, “our colleagues from the ground report that clashes in recent weeks in the Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu regions are impacting the Mission’s drawdown and withdrawal plan.”
According to Dujarric, “up until now, and as we mentioned, four of the 13 bases – namely: Ogossagou, Ber, Goundam and Menaka – have been vacated and handed over to the competent Malian authorities.”
Dujarric concluded, “from 1 October onwards, the Mission will use its remaining capacities to focus on its safe and orderly drawdown and withdrawal. In line with Security Council resolution 2690, the Mission will no longer be authorized, nor will it have the means and capacities to respond to imminent threats of violence against the civilian population or to contribute to the safe civilian-led delivery of humanitarian goods and services”
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