STORY: UN salutes humanitarian workers for averting

famine in Somalia
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DATELINE: 17/AUGUST/2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST

1. Wide shot, moderator addressing participants during the World

Humanitarian Day event
2. Med shot, participants listening during the World Humanitarian Day event
3. Med shot, Moderator addressing participants during the World Humanitarian
Day event
4. Med shot, participants listening during the World Humanitarian Day event
5. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) PETER de CLERCQ, HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR
FOR SOMALIA
We salute and thank aid workers for their bravery and unwavering
commitment, in particular those on the frontline, closest to those in need,
saving lives and protecting livelihoods. Its through their commitment that
famine has been averted in Somalia. They are our true daily inspiration. In
Somalia, health and aid workers who care for people who are affected by
violence and other climatic shortcomings are being targeted. Medicine and
relief supplies are looted. Humanitarian aid workers are detained or denied
access to people in desperate need. This is unacceptable.

6. Med shot, official addressing participants during the World Humanitarian Day
event
7. Med shot, Peter de Clercq, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia and other
officials listening during the World Humanitarian Day event
8. Close up shot, Peter de Clercq, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia and
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Disaster Management and
Humanitarian Affairs Mohamed Moalim listening during the World
Humanitarian Day event
9. Med shot, official addressing participants during the World Humanitarian Day
event
10. Wide shot, official addressing participants during the World Humanitarian
Day event
11. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) MOHAMED MOALIM, PERMANENT SECRETARY IN
THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND HUMANITARIAN
AFFAIRS
The government will also do its utmost to protect not only civilians, but also
aid workers who continue to risk their lives to save others.

12. Med shot, official addressing participants during the World Humanitarian Day
event
13. Close up shot, official addressing participants during the World Humanitarian
Day event
14. Wide shot, official addressing participants during the World Humanitarian
Day event
15. Med shot, slide show of the presentation on the screen
16. Med shot, participants listening and watching
17. Med shot, Peter de Clercq, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia listening
and referring to the notes
18. Wide shot, panning shot of participants in the room during the World
Humanitarian Day event
19. Med shot, another official addressing the participants during the World
Humanitarian Day event
20. Wide shot, another official addressing the participants during the World
Humanitarian Day event
21. Wide shot, participants applauding after the presentation during the World
Humanitarian Day event
22. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) STEVEN LAUWERIER, UNICEF (UNITED NATIONS
CHILDREN FUND) REPRESENTATIVE IN SOMALIA
As an aid worker in Somalia, we should not be a target, and sometimes we
are a target when delivering aid in this country. As you know, we lost four
people to a bomb attack two years ago which was a very, very sad moment.
And we should also not be a target to be able to deliver the aid to the most
vulnerable in the country, which sometimes is a challenge.

23. Med shot, UN Human Rights official addressing participants during the world
Humanitarian Day event
24. Close up shot, UN Human Rights official addressing participants during the
world Humanitarian Day event
25. Med shot, participants listening and applauding during the world
Humanitarian Day event
26. Wide shot, moderator giving participants opportunity to ask questions
27. Close up shot, Peter de Clercq, The Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia
listening
28. Med shot, other participants listening
29. Wide shot, participant asking a question during the World Humanitarian Day
event
30. Close up shot, another participant listening to the question during the world
Humanitarian Day event
 31. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) AMINA HAJI ELMI, CHAIRPERSON, SAVE THE
SOMALIA WOMEN AND CHILDREN ORGANIZATION
The world has to look another time to Somali people and to support
because it's still a long way. You can understand when theres no law and
order, the situation of protection is getting worse. Women and children are
the most vulnerable groups. So what I am encouraging and the message
which I am sending to the world is to look at Somalia another time and to
give a long project which is durable solutions from humanitarian (assistance)
to resilience and to give special priorities to protection sites.

32. Wide shot, participants getting up and leaving after event ends

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United Nations salutes humanitarian workers for averting famine in Somalia

Mogadishu, 17 August 2017 - The Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Peter de

Clercq has commended aid workers and volunteers for their contribution to serving
humanity and averting a famine that threatened Somalia earlier this year.

Mr. de Clercq spoke during an event to mark World Humanitarian Day in Mogadishu
and thanked aid workers for risking their lives on a daily basis to save the lives of
others in distress.

We salute and thank aid workers for their bravery and unwavering commitment, in
particular those on the frontline, closest to those in need, saving lives and protecting
livelihoods. Its through their commitment that famine has been averted in Somalia.
They are our daily inspiration, he noted.

Mr. de Clercq, who is also a Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations
Secretary-General (DSRSG) for Somalia, noted that humanitarian workers had not
only suffered death, injuries and abductions, but also expulsion from the country in
the course of fulfilling their duties.

He said that more than 100 incidents targeting humanitarian workers had been
reported thus far this year, and four of them had been killed.

In Somalia, health and aid workers, who work and care for people affected by
violence are being targeted. Medicine and relief supplies are looted. Humanitarian
workers are detained or denied access to people in desperate need. This is
unacceptable, he added.

Somalias Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Disaster Management and

Humanitarian Affairs, Mohamed Moalim, promised that the government will offer
protection to humanitarian workers as well as needy civilians.
The government will also do its utmost to protect not only civilians, but also aid
workers who continue to risk their lives to save others, Mr. Moalim said.

Theevent in Mogadishu also featured speeches by other senior United Nations

officials, including those responsible for human rights, refugees and children among
others.

This years theme for the day that will be observed worldwide on August 19 is Not a
target.

In an interview, the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) Representative in

Somalia, Steven Lauwerier, regretted that humanitarian workers had been turned
into targets.

As an aid worker in Somalia we should not be a target, and sometimes were a

target when delivering aid in this country, Mr. Lauwerier said, noting that four staff
members of UNICEF had been killed two years ago in a bomb attack in Garowe.

He said humanitarian workers should be allowed to do their work unhindered as

they deliver aid to the most vulnerable people in Somalia.

The Chairperson of the Save Somali Women and Children organization, Amina Haji
Elmi, said it was time for the world to help the Horn of Africa country emerge from
the current humanitarian situation facing Somalia.

The world has to look another time to Somali people and to support because its
still a long way. You can understand that when theres no law and order, the
situation of protection is getting worse, Ms Elmi said, adding that women and
children were the most vulnerable targets of violence.

World Humanitarian Day is observed every year on 19 August to pay tribute to aid
workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service, and to rally support for people
affected by crises around the world.