UNIFEED SAHEL REGION CRISIS

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STORY: UN / SAHEL REGION CRISIS TRT: 2.12 SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF / FAO RESTRICTIONS: NONE LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS DATELINE: 20 JULY 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY 1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations North Lawn Building 20 JULY 2010, NEW YORK CITY 2. Wide shot, John Holmes enters meeting 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sir John Holmes, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations: "Niger is, if you like, the centre of this crisis. The country by far the worse affected. Some 7 million people or more than that, indeed, are suffering from severe or moderate food insecurity, and that's almost fifty percent of the countries population. The situation is continuing to deteriorate as we speak and has becoming even more severe since I was there a few weeks ago." 4. Cutaway, meeting 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sir John Holmes, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations: "The country which is suffering second I think after Niger is Chad, particularly the Western regions of Chad, we're familiar with humanitarian issues in the East of Chad from the presence of refugees from Darfur and CAR and IDPs as well but this is different regions of Chad and very different problems. Some 1.6 million people are affected and that's about sixty percent of the households in these affected regions of the Sahel belt. Half the total number of children suffering from a severe acute malnutrition in the whole of Chad are living the Sahel belt." 6. Cutaway, meeting 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sir John Holmes, Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations: "I think the overall humanitarian response has done a reasonable job so far but needs to be stepped up considerably further, as I say, if we are going to avert a real humanitarian catastrophe." FILE - FAO - 25, 31 MAY 2010, NIGER 8. Wide shot, rural landscape 9. Med shot, Ox tilling the field 10. Wide shot, women in the field 11. Med shot, woman pounding grain 8. Wide shot, people waiting outside a cereal bank 9. Wide shot, people picking up sacks of grain FILE - UNICEF - 1-3 MARCH 2010, MAO, CHAD 10. Close-up, skull of a dead donkey 11. Med shot, skeleton of the donkey 12. Med shot, merchant selling maize in the Mao market 13. Wide shot, emaciated child being fed therapeutic milk by his grandmother 14. Various shots, emaciated child being fed therapeutic milk by his grandmother 15. Close-up, Adam Abdoulai smiling STORYLINE: The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator called today (20 July) a special meeting to bring to the attention of the media the food crisis in the Sahel Belt. John Holmes said that Niger was the centre of this crisis, and the country "by far the worse affected". He said that 7 million people and possibly more were suffering from "severe or moderate" food insecurity, and he added that that represented "almost fifty percent of the countries population". Holmes was concerned that the situation was continuing to deteriorate and was becoming even more severe since he visited the country a few weeks ago. In second place Holmes said that the country which was suffering the most after Niger was Chad, and particularly the western regions. He pointed out that around 1.6 million people were affected and that represented about sixty percent of the households in these affected regions of the Sahel belt. He also noted that half the total number of children suffering from "severe, acute malnutrition" in the whole of Chad were living this Sahel belt. Holmes emphasized that he thought the overall humanitarian response had done a "reasonable job" so far but he added that it still needed to be "stepped up considerably further, as I say, if we are going to avert a real humanitarian catastrophe." You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0cd9b019a847e85be4c65002b25e742c Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork