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7-month-old who weighs as a newborn is taken to field hospital
1. Close up of 7-months-old baby Mihag Gedi Farah
2. Wide of nurse nutritionist Sirat Amine talking to mother Asiah Dagane
3. Close up of baby Mihag being carried by his mother UPSOUND (Somali) "Please go to the scale"
4. Tracking shot...
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Philippines - Severe drought causes food shortages
Severe drought caused by the so-called El Nino weather pattern has reportedly caused mass starvation and deaths in the southern Philippines. Nearly 1 million people are believed to have been affected by the 9-month-long dry...
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Refugees continue to arrive from drought-stricken Somalia, sots
1. Wide of refugees arriving at the Hagadera reception centre
2. Wide of United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) staff registering new arrivals
3. Various of newly arrived family receiving registration tags
4. Wide of refugees waiting to...
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Zimbabwe, South Africa, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Cambodia/Kampuchea, China/Japan, Deaths, Pope
Guerillas come out of bush
British bobbies supervise the voting
Victory celebrations
Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister
SASOL plant blaze
Black crowds with police
Funeral of black riot victim (Elsies River)
Grim faces of black...
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Sierra Leone - Fears Of Famine
UNICEF warned on Saturday (9/12) that famine is a very real possibility in Sierra Leone as a result of the five-year civil war being fought there. Hundreds of children are on the brink of starvation in towns surrounded by rebels in...
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PHILLIPINES: POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED IN HONOUR OF PAPAL VISIT
Tagalog/Nat
Fourteen political prisoners were released in the Philippines Friday as a gesture of goodwill to mark the Pope's visit.
But as they walked free, the inmates vowed to continue a hunger strike to demand freedom for other...
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France, Germany, Air Disasters, Juan Peron Funeral, Ethiopia Famine
Gold coins
French President Pompidou
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Francois Mitterrand at mic
Valery Giscard-d'Estang at mic
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt surrounded by security at public address
Helmut Schmidt makes public speech
(Air...
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UN REPORT SAYS AFRICA REMAINS MOST FOOD INSECURE AREA IN THE WORLD
Sub-Saharan African nations will not be able to sustain their accelerated economic growth unless they eliminate hunger, the UN said in a report published this week.
Nearly 218 (m) million people on the continent are undernourished and 55...
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Aid arriving in Somalia, UN intv on humanitarian situation in Kenya
Near Mogadishu, Somalia
1. Mid of a woman holding a malnourished baby, at a government-run camp for drought-affected people who have come to the capital in search of food
2. Close of the malnourished baby
3. Wide of women and children in...
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CHINA: BEIJING: TALKS END BETWEEN NORTH & SOUTH KOREA
Korean/Nat
South Korea ended talks with North Korea in Beijing on Friday after the two failed to establish common ground for negotiation.
The two Koreas have been attempting to discuss the issue of reuniting families separated in their...
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North Korea - The death of Kim Jong-il / Kim Jong-un succeeds his father
On December 17th 2011 Kim Jong Il, North Korea's longtime leader, died of heart failure. He was 69.
In a "special broadcast" on December 19th from the North Korean capital, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a...
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Protest against Bush's visit to the APEC summit, nine arrests
1. Protesters playing drums and singing
2. Protesters with costumes dancing, one sporting poster reading (English) "Bush is a warmonger. Bush is not welcome here."
3. Protester with George W. Bush mask on his head dancing
4....
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Refugees fleeing famine face new threat from snakes
1. Wide of Mohamed Shiniyow
2. Mid shot of Mohamed Shiniyow prodding holes in an ant hill with a stick
3. Various of Mohamed Shiniyow with his family
4. Close up of child
5. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Mohamed Shiniyow, Somali refugee:
"I came...
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AFGHANISTAN: EXTREME POVERTY
English/Nat
For two decades, Afghanistan has been torn apart by war and extreme poverty, and its people's anguish has been exacerbated of late by the worst drought in years and a bitterly cold winter.
The World Food Programme says as...
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UNHCR visits displaced people in camp
1. Wide shot of UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, at the First May camp for IDPs (internally displaced persons)
2. Mid shot UN High Commissioner for refugees, Antonio Guterres, at the First May camp
3. Wide shot of...
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SKorean green building designs
Seoul, South Korea - February 14th, 2013
1. Medium of visitors watching roofing products
2. Close-up of the products displayed
3. Medium of visitors looking at photos and architectural models
4. Medium of the exhibition venue with model...
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4:3 AU, government troops in sporadic exchanges with Al Shabab
1. Wide of African Union (AU) tank positioned under tree
2. AU troops manning a heavy machine gun position pointing through a hole in the wall ++THIS POSITION WAS ABANDONED BY AL-SHABAB+
3. Somali transitional federal government (TFG)...
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Aid agencies increase efforts to supply much needed food to refugees
1. Wide relief food centre
2. Various of refugees receiving food aid parcels
3. Wide Halimo Hassan receiving food aid
4. Close of Halimo Hassan.
5. Close of bags of flour being put in a sack
6. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Halimo Hassan, refugee...
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Nurse at refugee camp works to save severely malnourished child
1. Tracking shot of male nurse, Serat Amin walking, in ward at IRC (International Rescue Committee) hospital, stops beside mother and child
2. Tilt up from severely malnourished baby, Mihag, to mother, Asiah Dagane, as she breastfeeds...
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Salvage crews continue working on Costa Concordia, mayor comment
1. Wide of Costa Concordia cruise ship in water, cranes and platform surrounding it, near Giglio island port
2. Mid of salvage workers on rubber dinghy, near the crack in the hull of the ship
3. Wide of side of ship with supports...
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Doctor''s joy as baby boy recovers from brink of starvation
Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya - 6 August 2011
1. Close-up of Somali baby Minhaj Gedi Farah at International Rescue Committee (IRC) maternity ward in Dadaab Refugee Camp
2. Mid of mother holding child on bed
3. Close of child''s legs
4. Mid...
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Thousands of doctors and nurses march for better financing of the health care system
Thousands of doctors and nurses marched through Bucharest on Saturday demanding better salaries and working conditions for employees of the beleaguered health system.
Those protesting are demanding that the government increases its...
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DENMARK: UN POVERTY SUMMIT ARRIVALS
English/Nat
The first of more than one-hundred world leaders have started arriving in Copenhagen for the U-N poverty summit.
Among them is South African President Nelson Mandela who warned that hunger and poverty are undermining the...