Humanitarian assistance in Yemen & other topics - Daily Briefing (22 October 2019)

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Syria
- Yemen
- Bolivia
- Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
- Sudan/South Sudan
- Sahel
- UNICEF
Syria
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that nearly two weeks after the start of the Turkish operations in northeastern Syria, more than 176,000 people have been displaced, including nearly 80,000 children. Also, critical infrastructure has been damaged. Apart from the Alouk water station, power lines have been damaged and at least four medical facilities are reported to be affected.
The Alouk water station, which serves over 400,000 people in Al-Hassakeh city and the surrounding displacement camps, has received temporary repairs, and generators are now being used to supply safe water for the population in the area.
Imran Riza, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, visited the northeast, and upon his return to Damascus, said he is grateful that appeals for humanitarian access were successful and that the teams were able to restore water and avert more serious humanitarian problems for residents in the area.

Yemen
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it has reached families trapped in Yemen’s Durayhimi City with much-needed humanitarian assistance. This is only the second time in over a year that WFP has been able to reach the town, which lies about 20 kms south of Hodeidah.
While most of the city’s residents have fled, some 200 civilians remain and are now highly vulnerable as fighting rages around them. There are no functioning health facilities and shops are bare. Finding enough to eat is a struggle.
Last week, WFP and sister UN agencies distributed a three-month supply of food, as well as nutrition supplements, water, medicine, and hygiene kits.
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