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Syria: UN aid teams offer vital assistance to Sweida’s displaced and returnees
Manage episode 495692492 series 2829213
Amid reports of a fragile calm in Syria’s Sweida governorate, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed on Monday that it is helping to provide assistance to those displaced by the violence – and the country’s many returnees.
The development follows deadly clashes between Bedouin and Druze communities in Sweida that has drawn in Syrian government forces and the Israeli military, highlighting the regional implications of unresolved tensions inside Syria.
With more on the crisis and the challenges facing Syrians returning home after well over a decade of civil war, here’s WFP’s head of emergency communications, Jonathan Dumont, with UN News’s Daniel Johnson in Geneva.
105 episodes
Manage episode 495692492 series 2829213
Amid reports of a fragile calm in Syria’s Sweida governorate, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed on Monday that it is helping to provide assistance to those displaced by the violence – and the country’s many returnees.
The development follows deadly clashes between Bedouin and Druze communities in Sweida that has drawn in Syrian government forces and the Israeli military, highlighting the regional implications of unresolved tensions inside Syria.
With more on the crisis and the challenges facing Syrians returning home after well over a decade of civil war, here’s WFP’s head of emergency communications, Jonathan Dumont, with UN News’s Daniel Johnson in Geneva.
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