OCHA / FLETCHER DARFUR VISIT

14 NOVEMBER 2025, TAWILA, KORMA-DARFUR, SUDAN

1. Various shots, road between Al Geneina and Golo – UN convoy moving from West to Central Darfur
2. Various shots, Daba Naira IDP camp, Tawila
3. Wide shot, USG Fletcher listening to IDP women in Daba Naira IDP camp, Tawila
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sumaya, fled El Fasher on 25 October:

“They besieged us in place from all directions. They’re targeting sources of water, markets and mills. No food could come in or out at all. Drones lined up above our heads, all type of weapons in sky and on land.”

5. Wide shot, USG Fletcher in conversation with Sumaya

6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Halima, fled El Fasher on 25 October:

“When we were in El Fasher, we were bombarded and our children died, and the youth were gone.”

7. Wide shot, USG Fletcher in conversation with Halima

8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Halima, fled El Fasher on 25 October:

“The shelling was over our heads, drones and all types of weapons. And if you went to the market your child will not come back, and if you want to go the shop there isn’t any.”

9. Wide shot, USG Fletcher listening to IDP women

10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Halima, fled El Fasher on 25 October:

“We need blankets and mats and nutrition and food.”

11. Various shots, life in Daba Naira IDP camp, Tawila

12. Wide shot, USG Fletcher approaching malnutrition centre run by Save the Children with support by the Sudan Humanitarian Fund

13. Various shots, USG Fletcher touring the facility

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, UN Relief Chief:

“People always say that in every crisis you should look for the helpers. And here in Tawila, which is the frontline of the global humanitarian crisis right now, you need to look no further than here. These are the helpers. These are the real - the frontline of humanitarian work. And I just-I'm in awe of them.”

15. Wide shot, pan left, medical staff 

15 NOVEMBER 2025, SILIK IDP CENTRE, KORMA

16. Various shots, displaced people at Silik’s IDP centre

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, UN Relief Chief:

“So, I’m here in Korma, in Darfur, we're very close now to El-Fasher, which has been the epicentre of inhumanity in this conflict. And we're meeting survivors of that conflict who have had to fight so hard just to get here, moving along that road where there's extortion, there's brutality, there are mass executions, there are mass rapes. And then they get here and they're in desperate need of help. And I do not want the teams responding to that to be responding empty-handed. I'm hearing too often that people have nothing, that there is no food, there's no water, there's no medicine. This is a desperate, desperate situation. And the world must respond. Must respond.”

18. Wide shot, pan left, displaced people at Silik’s IDP centre

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Haseena, English teacher, fled El Fasher:

“I came on foot. We have suffered more in El Fasher. The was is very evil. Very dangerous. We live in fear. My eldest son was dead on 16 September, he was 23 years [old]. Another [son], his leg was broken.”

20. Wide shot, USG Fletcher talking to Haseena

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Haseena, English teacher, fled El Fasher:

“We want to go to Tawila to see a doctor, to get an operation.”

23. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, UN Relief Chief:

“It’s very brave of you to be willing to speak to us but also, we're fortunate to find someone who speaks such good English, who can tell the world what the situation is here, and try to get the support that this this community needs. And I hope that you and your family are reunited. I hope you get to Tawila. And inshallah, your students will be learning again from you, in safety.”

16 NOVEMBER 2025, GUILODU, DARFUR

24. Wide shot, UN convoy getting ready to go

25. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, UN Relief Chief:

“In Korma I also met with RSF representatives to make clear that we demand full accountability for the atrocities that have taken place in El Fasher, that we insist on full civilian protection and that we will be vigilant in protecting civilians. And we demand that of all the parties on the ground. We also discussed the requirements we have for safe passage into El Fasher and out of El Fasher - into El Fasher for our humanitarian, life-saving support and out of fashion for those civilians, the survivors who are so desperately looking to flee.”

14 NOVEMBER 2025, DABA NAIRA IDP CAMP, TAWILA 

26. Various shots, general views of Daba Naira IDP camp, Tawila