Médecins Sans Frontières - Marcella-Horizontal-English

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB201439

Date taken / Date Recorded 08/07/2024 8:54 AM

Expiration date 11/07/2029

Country Sudan

Commissioning section MSF-NETHERLANDS

Photographer / videographer / producer Hussein Amri

Copyright Hussein Amri/MSF

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

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Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

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

Duration 4m31s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 191.79 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist All over the country,
people are struggling a lot.
And really need a lot more support,
a lot more attention
for this, this horrible
conflict and also humanitarian crisis.

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My name is Marcella Kraaij.

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I just came out of Sudan.

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I've been there for the last two months.

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As a head of mission for MSF.

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Sudan is a very

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big country.

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To the west,

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you have Darfur.

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And then in the middle

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of the country,

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you have Khartoum,

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And you also have across

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the River Nile, Omdurman,

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which is a city

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of about a million people.

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And MSF has a project there.

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And I was there, for some time.

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And while I was there,

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I saw and met our

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amazing Sudanese staff

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who have actually been

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working there

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under fire, literally,

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for the past year.

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Even while I was there,

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we could hear the outgoing

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shelling every day.

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Very noisy

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and intimidating.

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And then there were also

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moments of silence,

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which are almost more scary

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because those are

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the moments

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where you have

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incoming shelling.

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And from my point of view,

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really,

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Sudan and the Sudanese

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people deserve

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a lot more attention.

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It's our obligation

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to talk about

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what's happening in Sudan

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and to act.

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Organizations are

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not present,

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and that includes even MSF.

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We are present

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in much of the country.

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But, you know,

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those are

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individual places.

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It's not like we're covering really

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all the needs that are definitely there.

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One of the big challenges

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is the security situation.

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Shelling is something

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that you hear

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every day

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that's going on

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all the time.

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Shooting is

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also not uncommon.

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We see, you know,

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people wounded by,

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shell casings,

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by gunshots,

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every day in our hospital.

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But besides that,

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there is also what

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I call the paper barrier,

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which means that,

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you know, it's not easy,

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as an organization,

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to get

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the appropriate permits

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to be able to move around

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and get to the people.

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People are

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really struggling

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to access healthcare.

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Big parts of the city

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are pretty much

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no go areas anyway.

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What's also clear

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is that in

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some of our hospitals,

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some of the patients we see

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are coming from far away.

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It's again, an indicator

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of how difficult it is

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for people to even access

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any healthcare, at all.

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They're able and willing,

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through many difficulties,

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undoubtedly,

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to travel sometimes

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hundreds of kilometers

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just to be able to get

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to the facility and access

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any healthcare at all.

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It also means that

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a lot of the patients

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coming

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are actually coming late.

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They're presenting later

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than they should,

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and their

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health situation is worse

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than it needs to be.

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For malnutrition, it's

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clear that,

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the numbers are increasing.

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In the children's hospital

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that we support as MSF,

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in Omdurman.

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Access to food

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is already difficult.

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This is like even before

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the children

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getting malnourished.

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The prices have skyrocketed

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so much, and the population

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has had so much

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financial trouble,

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that many people just

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plain can't afford

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to buy the food

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that's there.

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And then you

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have to imagine

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some of the areas

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that are harder to get to,

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more in the desert,

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that's like far away.

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So we're really expecting,

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a worse situation

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than we already see

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when it comes

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to malnutrition,

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in the coming period.

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What we see

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with the shelling

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is that basically,

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the two warring

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parties are

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shelling at each other

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across the River Nile.

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But really,

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those are big cities.

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There are a lot of

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people living there.

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And so it means that it's

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the people living

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in those places.

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Normal people like you

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and I,

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that are getting

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these shells

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on their heads,

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on their houses.

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And so I would really hope

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that one day

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the warring parties

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see that, you know,

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it's the civilian population

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that's suffering the most.