United Nations, March 13 -- The United Nations and partners have mobilised relief efforts to help residents in Syria's western Latakia Governorate recover from recent violence, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said power outages continue in several regions, including the governorate's capital city of Latakia. Water distribution is affected by the outages, mainly in rural areas.
Schools in Latakia and Tartous have been suspended. Bakeries are operational, and shops are reopening, though essential materials and fuel remain scarce.
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) supplied 38 tonnes of water treatment supplies to Latakia's water authority, covering more than two months o...