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SYRIA Issue dated 19/01/2021

WHO and WFP work with companies close to Assad

A shipment of humanitarian aid delivered via Cham Wings Airlines to Benghazi in January 2021. ©Twitter/OMS Libya

UN agencies continue to have business relations with the Damascus regime but some prefer to reveal little about their contracts with local tycoons. [...] (421 words)

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