Médecins Sans Frontières - WEBCLIP - Dadaab Closure

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB69617

Date taken / Date Recorded 19/04/2021 12:57 AM

Country Kenya, Somalia

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Pierre-Yves Bernard

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 3m43s

Maximum Size 1080px × 1080px 381.10 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist SCRIPT Dadaab Closure Call:

SUBTITLES:
And to even think of closing the camps in the middle of a mutating pandemic, it's impossible, it will be inhumane and it will be completely against public health and human rights practices.

ON-SCREEN TEXT:
This is Dadaab complex, in Kenya,
one of the biggest and oldest
refugee camps in the world.

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It hosts more than 200.000 people, mainly from Somalia

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threatened by the recent call to close the camp.

ON-SCREEN TEXT
Adrian GUADARRAMA
MSF program manager for Kenya

SUBTITLES:
By the end of March this year, the government of Kenya has for the third time called for the closure of Dadaab refugee camp. This could have devastating consequences for refugees because the camps are all these people have.

ON-SCREEN TEXT (MAP):
Kenya
Somalia
Dadaab

SUBTITLES:
This camp has existed for almost three decades. So 30 years since the first arrivals came from Somalia. They were fleeing the civil war back in the early 1990s. And most of the young population in Dadaab has not even been in Somalia. As of today, the situation has not changed much in Somalia. And this means Somalia today is still very much affected by violence, by conflict, by drought, by floods, which make survival quite tough.

Today, they have no grip on their future. They depend on shrinking humanitarian assistance to survive. So abruptly closing the camps will only generate a new crisis as going back to Somalia is not an option for them. And this comes also in a time in which MSF is already pretty much concerned about the mental health status of their population. Only in 2020, at least three persons committed suicide and over 20 attempted suicide in Dagahaley.

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MSF offers general healthcare and hospital care services,

including mental healthcare in one of the camps, Dagahaley.

SUBTITLES:
When you are in front of a refugee from Dadaab, like it was my case in Dagahaley, you are only humbled by the level of resilience and endurance that these people have shown over the last decades. But we also know that this has a limit. It's very difficult for any human being to keep running with this level of uncertainty and with others card playing your future with you having very little to do or very little to say. The very reason why today, 30 years after Dadaab still exists, is because of the failed peace initiatives back in Somalia. So when I met one of the refugees and I asked him if it was up to you to write the last chapter of Dadaab camp, what would that be? How would that look like? And his answer was quite simple, but quite powerful. He answered, I would like a peaceful life.

ON-SCREEN TEXT
We will continue to stand in solidarity with refugee communities and support their calls to find durable solutions.

SUBTITLES:
They need other options and this is our call today. Refugees should have and deserve better options, and this is resettlement to third countries, integration into local communities. And for those who are willing to do so, going back to Somalia on voluntary basis. Today, personally and as Medicines Sans Frontières, we join the refugees in their dream to one day leave Dadaab to finally put an end to this chapter, but not at any cost.

WEBCLIP - Dadaab Closure - INTER long SQUARE

WEBCLIP - Dadaab Closure - INTER long SQUARE