MIL-OSI United Nations: World News in Brief: First UN mission to Syria’s Sweida, fresh displacement in Haiti, new lightning record
Source: United Nations 2 The team went to Sweida City, as well as two districts – Shahba and Salkhad – where they met with local community representatives and partners, in addition to visiting displacement sites and reception centres. Members also conducted assessments in the three districts of the governorate, where hundreds of people have been killed, and some 175,000 people displaced, in recent sectarian violence amid Syria’s ongoing political transition since the fall of the Assad regime last December. A senior UN official told the Security Council earlier this week that a fragile ceasefire is “largely holding”. More aid delivered OCHA said a fifth humanitarian