Médecins Sans Frontières - Chapter 5: Transit (EN)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF197516

Date taken / Date Recorded 20/04/2017 12:00 AM

Country Central African Republic

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Photographer / videographer / producer Anna Surinyach

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Duration 2m34s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 192.33 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Photo caption
Habiba Umaru
Habiba returned from Chad eight months ago. She’s ready to give birth.

Photo caption
Fadimatou Bouba
Fadimatou is widowed with eight children. She recently returned to Central African Republic from Chad.

Photo caption
Samita
Samita spent two months with her daughter in a camp without any basic services or food aid.

Photo caption
Zenaba Sale
Zenaba’s family are trying to survive in the ‘transit camp’ on the border.

Main title, on the photo
Lives in transit
Central African returnees: without the right to humanitarian aid

Chyron
Aude Thomet
MSF project coordinator in Kabo

Subtitles
00:30 – 00:36 (up to “site camp bâche”)
This is the transit camp
or temporary camp.

up to 00:40 (“c’est un camp qui est assez jeune”)
It’s quite new.

up to 00:47 (from “qui a été creé” to “des retournés réfugiés centrafricains”)
It was built when
the Central African refugees returned

up to 00:50 (“du Tchad à Centrafrique”)
from Chad to Central African Republic.

up to 00:56 (from “Quand ils arrivent ici” to “sans nfi” (enefai))
They arrived with nothing, no belongings,
no basic essentials,

up to 01:00 (“sans personne pour les accueillir”)
and nobody to give them shelter.

up to 01:05 (from “Ils se retrouvent ici”·to “IOM” (aioem))
The camp was built
by the International Organization for Migration

up to 01:10 (from “mais aujourd’hui n’est pas recensé” to “centrafricains”)
but now it’s neither registered
as a camp for displaced Central African people

up to 01:12 (“ou retournés du Tchad”)
nor for returnees from Chad

up to 01:17 (from “donc aucune assistance” to “cette population”)
so these people
don’t receive any food aid.

up to 01:21 (from “Pour ces personnes”… to “2014”)
These people, who fled
during the conflict of 2013-14

up to 01:25 (from “ça fait presque trois ans” to “de déplacement au fur et à mesure”)
have spent three years waiting
as displaced people

up to 01:31 (from “sans vraiment aucune assistance” to “vie normale”)
without receiving any aid
or help to get on with their lives.

up to 01:35 (from “la frontière” to “est fermée”)
The border between Chad
and Central African Republic is closed.

up to 01:40 (from “ces personnes ont commencé” to “voies illégales”)
People have started to return
little by little, by illegal means.

up to 01:45 (from “généralement le processus c’est” to “la brousse pendant la nuit”)
They normally cross the border
at night

up to 01:47 (“bien des passeurs”)
or use people traffickers

up to 01:53 (“et sous forme de taxes avec les militaires tchadiens”)
and pay 'taxes'
to the Chadian soldiers.

up to 01:57 (from “ils ne peuvent pas retourner” to “famille”
They can’t go home
because they have no family there.

up to 02:01 (from “pendant les évènements” to “leurs proches”)
Many people have lost
their loved ones.

up to 02:11 (from “la deuxième chose” to “que ça pourrait avoir l’air”)
Secondly, the situation
is not as peaceful as it seems.

up to 01:18 (to “par un grupo armé”
Moyenne-Sido and Kabo are still controlled
by one of the armed groups.

up to 01:26 (from “mais la population” to “dans leurs propres villages”)
People don’t feel safe enough
to return to their villages

(from “ou même retourner vers Bangui…”
or even to go to Bangui or other provinces.