Ethiopia Ceasefire Aid WEB
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- Ethiopia Ceasefire Aid WEB
- May 4, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: ETHIOPIA CEASE-FIRE AID HEADLINE: As Tigray Aid Blockade Continues, Nearby Areas Also in Desperate Need of Aid TEASER: A spokesperson from the Amhara region says support from the government and the UN has not been enough. PUBLISHED AT: Wednesday 05/04/2022 at 8:35 BYLINE: Henry Wilkins DATELINE: HAYK, ETHIOPIA VIDEOGRAPHER: Henry Wilkins VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: MPage, MAS, Salem Solomon VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X TRT: 3:27 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is an accompanying radio piece. Web desk: Please don’t create a new video upload as there is an existing file in draft mode within Pangea with the wrong video and it should be replaced with this video: https://app.frame.io/projects/24368708-68ca-4624-953b-d53db344e4cb/b0caaedf-20e9-46ff-85dd-57a88322d367 Please also alert the social media team to replace the old [link for one with error here: https://youtu.be/6Zf0VEVdEiQ ] with the new version in the frame link above. Salem has already sent an email requesting to change the corrected video both to the web desk and to the social media team.)) ((INTRO)) [[Despite Ethiopia’s declared humanitarian cease-fire with Tigrayan rebels, aid groups are struggling to get food and medicine to those in need. Even outside the worst affected areas in Tigray, which are cut off to reporters, providing aid is fraught with risks and challenges. For VOA, Henry Wilkins reports from Dessie, Ethiopia.]] ((NARRATOR)) In Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region, it’s been four months since occupying forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, left the area. As the region recovers from a brutal civil war, the U.N. says some 9.4 million people in the Amhara region and neighboring Afar and Tigray regions need humanitarian assistance. But aid has been slow to arrive. Seventeen-year-old Ahmed Nuru was living in the Oromia region, but he says he fled after facing persecution for his Amhara ethnicity. He lost his mother when he was young. Last year, his father died after being unable to get lifesaving treatment due to the war’s impact on the local health care system. Now, he is left to take care of his two sisters, 10 and 8. ((Ahmed Nuru, Displaced by Conflict (in Amharic)) “I have no idea what the future will look like. It’s really very difficult, I don’t know how I am going to meet the responsibility of raising these two children.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Daniel Tigabu is a public health officer based in the camp for the displaced where Ahmed lives. ((Daniel Tigabu, Public Health Official, (in Amharic)) “We don’t have enough medical equipment or medicines. The center is running out of basic medical kits. There is a shortage of malaria kits, hepatitis kits and HIV testing kits.” ((NARRATOR)) There are tens of thousands living in camps for the displaced in the Amhara region. Others live in host communities, like Tsgenet Tibebu, who lost her husband. ((Tsgenet Tibebu, Displaced by Conflict (in Amharic)) “Currently we rely on what my husband’s friends provided us on a piecemeal, that includes my monthly house rent… I have nothing. I am a housewife. I am just waiting for any support, anything to raise my two children. I feel I should pay a monthly house rent, even though the owners give me charity, since I lost my husband. How can I plan for the future when I have nothing?” ((NARRATOR)) An aid worker in the Hayk camp says that stories like Ahmed’s and Tsgenet’s are not uncommon across the Amhara region. ((Mulugeta Kebede, Aid Worker (in Amharic))) “The current situation makes us cry day and night. If you’re hungry, you can’t sleep. You’re always thinking about your empty stomach. I’ve seen displaced people forced to sell pans or mattresses to survive. Things are really at a critical stage.” ((NARRATOR)) About 30,000 people displaced by conflict live just north of Hayk, in Weldiya. A local government representative explains why aid is taking so long to arrive. ((Habtemariam Assefa, North Wollo Zone Spokesman (in Amharic)) “There was a little support at the beginning upon TPLF leaving after the area was a conflict zone for months. Aid has been distributed only twice since then. … The aid provided either by the U.N. or the federal government is not enough.” ((NARRATOR)) North of the Amhara region, in Tigray, where journalists are banned from entering, the U.N. says the situation is worse, with famine-like conditions. Tigray is under a de facto humanitarian blockade, according to the U.N. For now, all Ahmed and his sisters can do is try to scrape by and hope more assistance arrives soon. ((Henry Wilkins, For VOA News, Hayk, Ethiopia))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: ETHIOPIA CEASE-FIRE AID HEADLINE: As Tigray Aid Blockade Continues, Nearby Areas Also in Desperate Need of Aid TEASER: A spokesperson from the Amhara region says support from the government and the UN has not been enough. PUBLISHED AT: Wednesday 05/04/2022 at 8:35 BYLINE: Henry Wilkins DATELINE: HAYK, ETHIOPIA VIDEOGRAPHER: Henry Wilkins VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: MPage, MAS, Salem Solomon VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO X TRT: 3:27 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is an accompanying radio piece. Web desk: Please don’t create a new video upload as there is an existing file in draft mode within Pangea with the wrong video and it should be replaced with this video: https://app.frame.io/projects/24368708-68ca-4624-953b-d53db344e4cb/b0caaedf-20e9-46ff-85dd-57a88322d367 Please also alert the social media team to replace the old [link for one with error here: https://youtu.be/6Zf0VEVdEiQ ] with the new version in the frame link above. Salem has already sent an email requesting to change the corrected video both to the web desk and to the social media team.)) ((INTRO)) [[Despite Ethiopia’s declared humanitarian cease-fire with Tigrayan rebels, aid groups are struggling to get food and medicine to those in need. Even outside the worst affected areas in Tigray, which are cut off to reporters, providing aid is fraught with risks and challenges. For VOA, Henry Wilkins reports from Dessie, Ethiopia.]] ((NARRATOR)) In Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region, it’s been four months since occupying forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, left the area. As the region recovers from a brutal civil war, the U.N. says some 9.4 million people in the Amhara region and neighboring Afar and Tigray regions need humanitarian assistance. But aid has been slow to arrive. Seventeen-year-old Ahmed Nuru was living in the Oromia region, but he says he fled after facing persecution for his Amhara ethnicity. He lost his mother when he was young. Last year, his father died after being unable to get lifesaving treatment due to the war’s impact on the local health care system. Now, he is left to take care of his two sisters, 10 and 8. ((Ahmed Nuru, Displaced by Conflict (in Amharic)) “I have no idea what the future will look like. It’s really very difficult, I don’t know how I am going to meet the responsibility of raising these two children.” ((NARRATOR)) ((Daniel Tigabu is a public health officer based in the camp for the displaced where Ahmed lives. ((Daniel Tigabu, Public Health Official, (in Amharic)) “We don’t have enough medical equipment or medicines. The center is running out of basic medical kits. There is a shortage of malaria kits, hepatitis kits and HIV testing kits.” ((NARRATOR)) There are tens of thousands living in camps for the displaced in the Amhara region. Others live in host communities, like Tsgenet Tibebu, who lost her husband. ((Tsgenet Tibebu, Displaced by Conflict (in Amharic)) “Currently we rely on what my husband’s friends provided us on a piecemeal, that includes my monthly house rent… I have nothing. I am a housewife. I am just waiting for any support, anything to raise my two children. I feel I should pay a monthly house rent, even though the owners give me charity, since I lost my husband. How can I plan for the future when I have nothing?” ((NARRATOR)) An aid worker in the Hayk camp says that stories like Ahmed’s and Tsgenet’s are not uncommon across the Amhara region. ((Mulugeta Kebede, Aid Worker (in Amharic))) “The current situation makes us cry day and night. If you’re hungry, you can’t sleep. You’re always thinking about your empty stomach. I’ve seen displaced people forced to sell pans or mattresses to survive. Things are really at a critical stage.” ((NARRATOR)) About 30,000 people displaced by conflict live just north of Hayk, in Weldiya. A local government representative explains why aid is taking so long to arrive. ((Habtemariam Assefa, North Wollo Zone Spokesman (in Amharic)) “There was a little support at the beginning upon TPLF leaving after the area was a conflict zone for months. Aid has been distributed only twice since then. … The aid provided either by the U.N. or the federal government is not enough.” ((NARRATOR)) North of the Amhara region, in Tigray, where journalists are banned from entering, the U.N. says the situation is worse, with famine-like conditions. Tigray is under a de facto humanitarian blockade, according to the U.N. For now, all Ahmed and his sisters can do is try to scrape by and hope more assistance arrives soon. ((Henry Wilkins, For VOA News, Hayk, Ethiopia))
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- Network VOA
- Embargo Date May 4, 2022 08:42 EDT
- Byline Henry Wilkins
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America