TRT: 01:10
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 04 FEBRUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
SHOTLIST:
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, United Nations Headquarters
04 FEBRUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, spokesperson Eri Kaneko at the press room podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today, we and our humanitarian partners launched an appeal for $751 million to meet the urgent needs of 5.7 million people, over half of whom are women and children. The launch was hosted by the Government of Mali and co-chaired by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Alain Noudehou. The appeal aims to mobilize the necessary funding for the Humanitarian Response Plan 2023 for the country.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Mali faces a multidimensional crisis fuelled by insecurity, conflict, climate change and lack of access to basic social services. As of December, over 400,000 people, mainly children and women, have been displaced due to increasing insecurity in the regions of Bandiagara, Mopti, Gao, Timbuktu, Ségou and Menaka. Our colleagues say that humanitarian needs have increased by 17 per cent compared to last year.”
4. Wide shot, Kaneko at the podium
STORYLINE:
The United Nations and humanitarian partners today (2 Feb) launched an appeal for $751 million “to meet the urgent needs of 5.7 million people, over half of whom are women and children” in Mali, a UN spokesperson said.
The appeal, Associate Spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez said, “aims to mobilize the necessary funding for the Humanitarian Response Plan 2023 for the country.”
Mali, Soto Nino-Martinez said, “faces a multidimensional crisis fuelled by insecurity, conflict, climate change and lack of access to basic social services.”
As of December, she added, “over 400,000 people, mainly children and women, have been displaced due to increasing insecurity in the regions of Bandiagara, Mopti, Gao, Timbuktu, Ségou and Menaka.
According to humanitarian colleagues, the spokesperson said, “needs have increased by 17 percent compared to last year.”
