STORY: UN makes humanitarian appeal for Somalia TRT: 3:52 SOURCE: UNSOM PUBLIC INFORMATION RESTRICTIONS: This media asset is free for editorial broadcast, print, online and radio use. It is not to be sold on and is restricted for other purposes. All enquiries to news@auunist.org CREDIT REQUIRED: UNSOM PUBLIC INFORMATION LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS DATELINE: 15th/JUNE /2014, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA SHOT LIST 1. Wide shot, Philippe Lazzarini Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia 2. Med shot, Journalists covering the press conference 3. Wide shot, Journalists at the press conference 4. Close up shot, Philippe Lazzarini addressing the media 5. Wide shot, Philippe Lazzarini speaking to the journalists 6. Med shot, Philippe Lazzarini addressing press conference 7. Med shot, Philippe Lazzarini at the press conference 8. Med shot, DSRSG Philippe Lazzarini addressing the media 9. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) PHILIPPE LAZZARINI, DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL AND UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR SOMALIA: “Right now we have about 900,000 people who are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance but among these are 200,000 children below the age of five. Besides that, we a have situation of about 2 million people who are teetering on the edge of food insecurity who can easily slip back in a situation of food emergency if no careful attention is brought to them.” 10. Wide shot, Philippe Lazzarini addressing the media 11. Med shot, Journalists listening to the address 12. Wide shot, Journalists covering the press conference 13. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) PHILIPPE LAZZARINI, DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL AND UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR SOMALIA “Newly accessible areas need to be properly accessible. They need to be accessible for the Somalis, they need to be accessible for the business community, they need to be accessible I mean for the humanitarian partners, that’s the only way to provide assistance, to assist this population and to go even beyond the humanitarian assistance.” 14. Med shot, Journalists covering the press conference 15. Wide shot, Journalists at the press conference 16. SOUNDBITE: PHILIPPE LAZZARINI, DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL AND UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR SOMALIA: “I do believe and I have repeated many times over the last few months that we are at a junction; we are in a situation in which if there is no more attention on the unfolding humanitarian crisis, we are taking the risk to fall back into a major crisis.” 17. Close up, Somali journalist asking question 18. Close up, DSRSG Philippe Lazzarini listening to the journalists 19. Med shot, DSRSG Philippe Lazzarini listens 20. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) PHILIPPE LAZZARINI, DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL AND UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR SOMALIA: “We need 60 million dollar to respond to the most urgent need over the next coming two months. And when I say most urgent need, I mean only livelihood saving need. I am not talking about building resilience, alleviating the suffering of the people. I am talking about life saving needs. That means to treat 50,000 children who suffer acute malnutrition. To make sure that the assistance can be transported in south central. To ensure the continuation of the vaccine campaign, to ensure that the people have access to clean water.” 21. Med shot, journalists covering the press conference 22. Close up, Journalist’s LCD camera screen 23. Wide shot, Journalists covering the press conference STORY UN warns of looming humanitarian emergency in Somalia Mogadishu, 15 June 2014 - Despite improved security in some parts of Somalia following a military operation against Al Shabaab earlier this year, the fragile humanitarian situation in the country could become an emergency unless funds are made available to support life-saving interventions, Philippe Lazzarini, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, has said. While addressing a press conference in the capital, Mogadishu, Lazzarini said Somalia risked drifting back into a humanitarian crisis, with the already fragile food security situation likely to worsen in the coming months as a result of delayed rains, continued conflict and rising food prices. “Right now we have about 900,000 people who are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance but among these are 200,000 children below the age of five. Besides that, we a have situation of about 2 million people who are teetering on the edge of food insecurity who can easily slip back in a situation of food emergency if no careful attention is brought to them,” he said, adding that decades of conflict had displaced more than one million people inside Somalia.
