UNITED NATIONS: The UN humanitarian chief says more than 13 million people in Syria still need humanitarian assistance and nearly half are in “acute need” as a result of having fled their homes, of hostilities and of limited access to food, health care and other basic needs.
Mark Lowcock told the UN Security Council on Monday that the number of Syrians displaced within the country for a long time has dropped from 6.3 million to 6.1 million. But he says “levels of new displacement remain high,” with 1.8 million reportedly forced to leave between January and December.
Lowcock says that just the offensive that ousted Daesh from Raqqa resulted in over 436,000 people being displaced to 60 different locations over the past year.