United Nations: More than half of Syria's population is in need of humanitarian aid
ARK News… The Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs confirmed that more than half of Syria's population is in need of food aid.
Joyce Msoya, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs, said during her briefing before the Security Council on the situation in Syria that the rate of acute malnutrition among children under the age of five has increased three-fold over the past five years, adding that more than half a million children will need life-saving treatment, lives of severe malnutrition this year.
The UN official stressed that expanding the scope of deliveries across the lines of contact throughout Syria, including to the northwest, “remains a top priority.”
Msoya also warned of devastating consequences for the population, after the World Food Program was forced to reduce its emergency food aid, to be provided to only one million people per month instead of three million.
She also called for sustainable and unimpeded humanitarian access through all routes.
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