STORY: Emergency Directors visit Baidoa and

Kismaayo to assess humanitarian needs of

drought victims
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DATELINE: 10 April 2017, BAIDOA, KISMAAYO SOMALIA

SHOT LIST

1. Med shot, South West of Somalia President meeting with Emergency

Directors delegation on drought
2. Wide shot, delegation leaving the Presidential Palace
3. Med shot, President and delegation in one of the Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs) camps
4. Wide shot, President and delegation in one of the camps
5. Med shot, the delegation talking to some IDPs
6. Med shot, Humanitarian Coordinator and Emergency Directors at the
camp
7. Med shot, internally displaced persons talking to the delegation
8. Wide shot, Baidoa Regional Hospital
9. Med shot, delegation visiting the hospital
10. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) President Sharif Hassan, ISWA president
The effects of drought have increased and many newly displaced people
have come to Baidoa. We talked and agreed that the support be extended to
the localities. We hope the government forces and African Union Mission in
Somalia (AMISOM) will open up routes blocked by Al-Shabaab to help the
people affected by the drought.
11. Wide shot, delegation leaving the hospital
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter de Clercq, Humanitarian Coordinator
for Somalia
We talked about how we can work together towards fighting the drought and
to prevent famine from happening so as to enable the people get the type of
assistance they deserve. We need the cooperation of South West authorities
in terms of making sure that this camp is safe; that we can build toilets and
latrines here in this camp. We need to work together towards fighting drought
and the famine and acute water diarrhea situation.

13. Wide shot, patients in a ward at the Baidoa regional hospital

14. Med shot, a mother taking care of her daughter at the hospital
 15. Med shot, Peter de Clercq, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia,
John Ging, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (UNOCHA) Director of Operations and a United Nations
Childrens Fund (UNICEF) official at the hospital looking at a patient
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Ging, UNOCHA Director of
Operations
There are now over 150,000 people that have newly been displaced in
Baidoa because of the drought. We have come from headquarters of UN and
international NGOs to see the situation and then to rapidly support the
response.

17. Wide shot, an elderly lady taking care of her mother

18. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Habiba Ahmed Baidoa resident
This is my mother. She got sick at Goof Gaduud Shabellow. She was
suffering from diarrhea and vomiting. Her health situation is better than
yesterday. We got good doctors, better medical check-up, chlorine and oral
rehydration salts (ORS).

19. Wide shot, Kismaayo International Airport

20. Med shot, Emergency Directors delegation arriving
21. Med shot, delegation getting off the plane
22. Med shot, Delegation convoy
23. Wide shot, delegation going for a meeting with the Jubbaland
administration
24. Close up shot, delegation in a meeting with Jubbaland administration
officials
25. Close up shot, a senior Jubbaland administration official at the meeting
26. Med shot, senior Jubbaland administration officials attending the
meeting
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vincent Lelei, Deputy Humanitarian
Coordinator for Somalia
Somalia as a whole has very serious problem with a population of more than
6.2 million in need of humanitarian assistance, out of that more than 700,000
come from Jubbaland state. Already very many of them have been displaced
and many of them are sheltered in Kismaayo.

28. Wide shot, a mother and her child receiving medical supplies at the
camp
29. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Abdirahmam Mohamed Hussein,
Jubbaland Deputy Minister of Interior
We have discussed the general drought situation in Somalia, Jubbaland in
particular. We asked them to double humanitarian efforts in the country and
increase the UN and international communitys assistance in the country.
 30. Wide shot, Kismaayo General Hospital
31. Med shot, a mother and her child in hospital
32. Wide shot, Barwaqo Mohamed Ali, patient in Kismaayo
33. Close up shot, hands
34. Close up shot, face
35. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Barwaqo Mohamed Ali, Patient
I got sick with diarrhea while looking after a sick child in the hospital. I was
admitted in this ward. My health situation is better now. I was admitted
suffering from diarrhea and vomiting but now I am recovering.

36. Wide shot, a patient on a hospital bed in Kismaayo hospital

Emergency Directors visit Baidoa and Kismaayo to assess humanitarian

needs of drought victims

Mogadishu, 10 April 2017 - Emergency Directors today visited Baidoa and

Kismaayo to assess the impact of drought on populations in South West and
Jubbaland states which are the worst affected throughout Somalia.

There are now over 150,000 people that have newly been displaced in
Baidoa because of the drought. We have come from headquarters of UN and
international NGOs to see the situation and support the response, said John
Ging Director of the Operational Division of the United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Following meetings with all the stakeholders, it was agreed that the
humanitarian organizations and the federal states would work more closely
together to scale-up the humanitarian response according to Mr. Ging.

The delegation visited two camps for internally displaced people in Beerta
Muuri in Baidoa and Dalxiska in Kismaayo. The team also visited a Cholera
Treatment Center in Bay regional hospital in Baidoa and Kismaayo General
Hospital.

In Baidoa, the delegation met many recovering patients including Habiba

Ahmed who talked about her mothers plight.

She got sick at Goof Gaduud Shabellow. She was suffering from diarrhea
and vomiting. Her health situation is better than yesterday. We got good
doctors, better medical check-up, chlorine and oral rehydration salts, she
said.

At Kismaayo General Hospital the delegation heard from Barwaqo Mohamed

Ali about how he fell ill while caring for a child.
I got sick with diarrhea while looking after a sick child in the hospital. I was
admitted in this ward. My health situation is better now. I was admitted
suffering from diarrhea and vomiting but now I am recovering, He said.

Led by the Humanitarian Coordinator, Peter de Clercq, the delegation held

discussions with the South West State President, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan,
in Baidoa. In Kismaayo they met the First Vice President of Jubbaland,
Mohamud Sayid Adan.

We talked about how we can work together to fight the drought and to
prevent famine from happening so as to ensure people get the type of
assistance they deserve, said Mr. de Clercq.

President Adan of South West State urged federal government forces and the
African Union Mission in Somalia to help open up supply routes blocked by Al-
Shabaab to enable people affected by drought to access humanitarian aid.

Jubbaland states Deputy Minister of Interior, Abdirahmam Mohamed Hussein,

said the state government and UN officials had agreed to speed up their
collective response to the growing numbers of people affected by drought.

Vincent Lelei, Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia said: Somalia

as a whole has a very serious problem with a population of more than 6.2
million in need of humanitarian assistance, out of that more than 700,000
come from Jubbaland state. Already very many of them have been displaced
and many of them are sheltered in Kismaayo.