Friday, March 31, 2017

UN Secretary General Calls for More Aid For Mosul Refugees

The UN Secretary General has called for more help to be sent to people fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul, which government forces are fighting to retake from the so-called Islamic State.

Antonio Guterres said the UN doesn't currently have enough resources to help over 350,000 residents who have left the city, where street battles have been raging for weeks.

Here's our correspondent at UN headquarters in New York, Lorna Shaddick.

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