Médecins Sans Frontières - 1 year of war

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Date taken / Date Recorded 23/04/2023 12:00 AM

Country Sudan

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Additional Information / Shotlist TITLE: 1Year of conflict
LOCATION: Sudan
SHOOTING DATE: From 21 April to 16 February 2024
SOUND: Natural with English
LENGTH: 11’05”
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SOURCE: Médecins Sans Frontières/
Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
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00:00:02:00 Khartoum 21 April 2023
00:00:22:07 North Darfur 21 April 2023
00:00:42:04 Khartoum 2 June 2023
00:01:49:24 Wad Madani 14 June 2023
00:02:41:14 Sangour 18 July 2023
00:03:06:06 Zamzam camp 16/02/2024

00:04:33:15 Interview of Joël Ghazi MSF Emergency Coordinator

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It has

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affected people in Sudan in different ways
depending on where they are.

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So the war started
first in the capital and Khartoum.

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It's been a city that has been spared
from previous fighting.

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So people there, have been

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greatly affected by it in the sense
that it was new to so many of them.

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It's one of the largest displacement
crises that we now have worldwide.

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The estimates are now

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ranging from 6 to 8.5
million people displaced.

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And these numbers include, of course,
refugees in neighboring countries,

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but also a large part of them
displaced inside their own country.

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These people are also recently now,
because of all the disruption

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the war has caused, they're facing,
a severe nutrition crisis.

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The thresholds that we have observed
in places we have been able to access

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are catastrophic and way beyond

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the minimum.

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And again,

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I'm stressing the fact that this is places
we have been able to access and to see.

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There are many areas in Sudan
where, us as MSF

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or other actors are unable to access
and unable to get information.

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So we're just fearing the worst
for so many places.

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I believe after my time in Sudan,
that what we know

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is just the tip of the iceberg
when it comes to the violence,

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sexual violence and rape
that women have faced.

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Community or each sector of the population
is facing it's different challenges.

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But in general, there's food insecurity,

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malnutrition, displacement,

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lack of water,
lack of shelter, and security.

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So situation is quite catastrophic.

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You do not have two hours that passes
in Khartoum without hearing gunshots.

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You do not have a single day or
a single night that passes without hearing

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the sound of bombs, whether it's shelling
or airstrikes.

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It's every day.

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We were in a city called Wad Madani.

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So it's four hours away from Khartoum,
south of Khartoum.

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And we have the mobile clinic
for people displaced from Khartoum.

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And, so we had seen some patients
during our visits.

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And then on the 15th of December,
the ISF attacked Madani.

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They took it over
and some of us went back to Khartoum.

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And to our surprise, two weeks
after being going back to Khartoum,

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we saw some of the patients that we were
seeing in Madani back in Khartoum.

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So this is really I mean...

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We know
that, displacements are often multiple.

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So when we talk about people
being displaced, it's not just one time.

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It's often several times,
but seeing it and seeing the same,

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patients, the same people
having to have moved in April

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or in May last year and then moving again
in December this year.

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We started seeing suddenly

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an increase in the number of patients
coming to our hospital.

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During the first week,
especially when they arrived. We,

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as MSF, were supporting several structures
in Khartoum.

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There are very few actors in the area.

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I would say that

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our capacity, the coverage that we have
is less than optimal,

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much less than optimal.

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We know that also a lot of areas
are not receiving,

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even the bare minimum of aid,
whether it's medical aid,

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food, shelter
or any sort of humanitarian aid. So

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there are areas that I remember visiting

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in north, Darfur and North Kordofan,
where people have told me

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we have not seen any aid
since the war began.

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We have been facing
since the beginning of the war in Sudan,

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a lot of political blockages
by the authorities.

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We have had a lot of requests for sending

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medical aid and humanitarian aid refused.

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This is out

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of a political

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unwillingness to send aid to certain areas
by certain actors.

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And I think considering the extent

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of the needs, it’s
unacceptable today after after one year.

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In many cases,
the lack of access is because of this,

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because of

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blockages that we face.

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In other areas, it's because of the
insecurity that a lot of other actors are

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not able to ensure the security
of their staff and their supplies.

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There needs to be more talking
about Sudan, more highlighting the needs,

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the reality,
what is happening to people there.

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There needs to be more involvement,
whether it's humanitarian or even,

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in general, more media attention,

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that is highlighting this crisis
because it can also,

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I mean, the longer it is left like this,
the worse it is for people.

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And it can also have
regional ramifications and spillover.

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There needs to be more attention
and there needs to be more decisive action

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when it comes to access.

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Access has been very difficult.

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As you know, it's a huge country
and there needs to be more access points,

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for aid to reach the country.

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We cannot rely on 1 or 2.

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We need to develop more.

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The U.N.

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and other actor
need to also step up on this.

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I mean, you're

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talking about doctors
and humanitarian workers and activists

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and other people that are trying to do
as best as they can after one year.

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I spent a month in Khartoum,
3 months in Sudan.

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There are people who have been
in this reality of the war, for example,

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in Khartoum or in Darfur, for now, a year,
if not more.

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And they still there.

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They're still doing their best
and they're still working.

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For me, this is one thing
that I really want to, maybe,

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shed light on
is that these people are still there

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and they're willing to continue.

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They just need to be given
the means also to continue what they do.

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For me,
this is what gives me hope for the future,

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at least in Sudan,
is that there is a huge number of people,

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humanitarian workers,

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doctors and others that are invested
and are giving their all so that,

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they lessen the suffering of civilians
and that hopefully

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there is a bright future out of this. And,

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I mean, I've had the honor
and the pleasure

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of working with many of these in Khartoum
and supporting them

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also as best as we can.

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You know, a lot of our work
is also in good partnership

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with the emergency rooms in Khartoum.

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It's their country,

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and they're doing an amazing job,
and I think they deserve more

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attention, credit
and most of all, support.

1 year of war | B-ROLL

1 year of war | B-ROLL