Ethiopia Displaced Aid Shortage -- USAGM
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- Ethiopia Displaced Aid Shortage -- USAGM
- June 25, 2022
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English ETHIOPIA DISPLACED AID SHORTAGE (TV) HEADLINE: Ethiopia’s Struggling IDPs Face Dilemma: Stay or Return Home? TEASER: Lack of food and shelter in Ethiopia’s IDP camps prompts some to return home, despite risk PUBLISHED AT: 06/23/2022 BYLINE: HALIMA ATHUMANI CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Semera, Ethiopia VIDEOGRAPHER: Yidnkeachew Lemma VIDEO EDITOR: Yidnkeachew Lemma PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Schearf, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO x__ TRT: VID APPROVED BY: TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: )) ((INTRO)) Internally displaced persons in northern Ethiopia’s Afar region have been leaving some camps due to lack of food and shelter. The U.N. has warned that returning home may not prove any better and are calling for more international support. Halima Athumani reports from Semera, Ethiopia. ((VIDEO-VOA: FOOD DISTRIBUTION POINT, WOMEN WAITING, MYRA)) ((NARRATOR)) Afar region officials say this camp in Dupti, northern Ethiopia, houses about 30,000 internally displaced persons. Many were forced to flee fighting between Tigray regional forces and federal troops and their allies. Others fled record drought that has killed millions of livestock and left millions of Ethiopians facing hunger. Myra Muhammed is a mother of three who in January walked for days and 400 kilometers to reach the camp only to find it overcrowded and without enough food or shelter. ((Myra Muhammed, Displaced Mother of Three (Afar, 35 secs)) “I don’t know what’s better for us. Because, even if I return home, no one will support me. We don’t get sufficient support here. I don’t know what’s better for us. I feel more stressed, and I’m worried about returning.” ((VIDEO-VOA: DUBTI IDP SITE, IDRIS COUNTING FOOD BAGS, IDRIS)) ((NARRATOR)) Myra is not alone. In June alone, Afar disaster officials say at least 8,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned home because of shortages and the closure of one camp. The U.N.’s refugee agency says since March, 12,000 IDPs in the region returned home. ((Idris Muhammad Abdullah, IDP Leader (Afar, 23 secs)) “There’s lack of resources, sometimes it comes in bits. Sometimes we distribute to 300, 400 or 500 households. So, it causes conflict for those who don’t receive.” ((VIDEO-VOA: IDPS, SAAD)) ((NARRATOR)) Russia’s war on Ukraine has taken global attention and driven up the cost of food aid. The U.N.’s humanitarian affairs office in Ethiopia says they need $3 billion to meet IDP needs and those who return home may be worse off. ((Michel Saad, UN Office For The Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs))(English, 14 secs)) “Because if they return somewhere where there’s no health center, there are no schools, no access to water, water is not running. No electricity, no banking system, no telecommunication. I mean, obviously the situation is remaining very difficult.” ((VIDEO-VOA: FOOD DISTRIBUTION, IDP’S IN HOUSE, ASIA HUSSEIN)) ((NARRATOR)) Meanwhile, IDPs in the camps wait in the scorching heat for help - rationed first to the most vulnerable. Mother of six Asia Hussein is among the lucky ones getting food today. ((Asia Hussein, Displaced Mother (Afar, 12 secs)) “I have six children. And to be honest, this food is not enough. But what shall we do?” ((VIDEO-VOA: IDPS)) ((NARRATOR)) Ethiopians displaced by war and drought with no good options. ((Halima Athumani, for VOA News, Semera, Ethiopia.))
- Transcript/Script ETHIOPIA DISPLACED AID SHORTAGE (TV) HEADLINE: Ethiopia’s Struggling IDPs Face Dilemma: Stay or Return Home? TEASER: Lack of food and shelter in Ethiopia’s IDP camps prompts some to return home, despite risk PUBLISHED AT: 06/23/2022 BYLINE: HALIMA ATHUMANI CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Semera, Ethiopia VIDEOGRAPHER: Yidnkeachew Lemma VIDEO EDITOR: Yidnkeachew Lemma PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: Schearf, MAS VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO x__ TRT: VID APPROVED BY: TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: )) ((INTRO)) Internally displaced persons in northern Ethiopia’s Afar region have been leaving some camps due to lack of food and shelter. The U.N. has warned that returning home may not prove any better and are calling for more international support. Halima Athumani reports from Semera, Ethiopia. ((VIDEO-VOA: FOOD DISTRIBUTION POINT, WOMEN WAITING, MYRA)) ((NARRATOR)) Afar region officials say this camp in Dupti, northern Ethiopia, houses about 30,000 internally displaced persons. Many were forced to flee fighting between Tigray regional forces and federal troops and their allies. Others fled record drought that has killed millions of livestock and left millions of Ethiopians facing hunger. Myra Muhammed is a mother of three who in January walked for days and 400 kilometers to reach the camp only to find it overcrowded and without enough food or shelter. ((Myra Muhammed, Displaced Mother of Three (Afar, 35 secs)) “I don’t know what’s better for us. Because, even if I return home, no one will support me. We don’t get sufficient support here. I don’t know what’s better for us. I feel more stressed, and I’m worried about returning.” ((VIDEO-VOA: DUBTI IDP SITE, IDRIS COUNTING FOOD BAGS, IDRIS)) ((NARRATOR)) Myra is not alone. In June alone, Afar disaster officials say at least 8,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned home because of shortages and the closure of one camp. The U.N.’s refugee agency says since March, 12,000 IDPs in the region returned home. ((Idris Muhammad Abdullah, IDP Leader (Afar, 23 secs)) “There’s lack of resources, sometimes it comes in bits. Sometimes we distribute to 300, 400 or 500 households. So, it causes conflict for those who don’t receive.” ((VIDEO-VOA: IDPS, SAAD)) ((NARRATOR)) Russia’s war on Ukraine has taken global attention and driven up the cost of food aid. The U.N.’s humanitarian affairs office in Ethiopia says they need $3 billion to meet IDP needs and those who return home may be worse off. ((Michel Saad, UN Office For The Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs))(English, 14 secs)) “Because if they return somewhere where there’s no health center, there are no schools, no access to water, water is not running. No electricity, no banking system, no telecommunication. I mean, obviously the situation is remaining very difficult.” ((VIDEO-VOA: FOOD DISTRIBUTION, IDP’S IN HOUSE, ASIA HUSSEIN)) ((NARRATOR)) Meanwhile, IDPs in the camps wait in the scorching heat for help - rationed first to the most vulnerable. Mother of six Asia Hussein is among the lucky ones getting food today. ((Asia Hussein, Displaced Mother (Afar, 12 secs)) “I have six children. And to be honest, this food is not enough. But what shall we do?” ((VIDEO-VOA: IDPS)) ((NARRATOR)) Ethiopians displaced by war and drought with no good options. ((Halima Athumani, for VOA News, Semera, Ethiopia.))
- NewsML Media Topics Conflict, War and Peace
- Topic Tags Aid Ethiopia
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date June 24, 2022 20:09 EDT
- Description English In the fifth public hearing this month examining the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, congressional investigators detailed how former President Donald Trump pressured the nation’s highest law enforcement officials to declare the 2020 election results invalid. As VOA’s congressional correspondent Katherine Gypson reports, those fraudulent election claims were also pushed by Republican members of Congress who later sought pardons.
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English