`Race against clock` to prepare for west Mosul exodus: UN

The United Nations said Sunday as Iraqi forces launched their offensive to retake west Mosul that it was rushing to build more shelters ahead of an expected wave of displacement.

Baghdad: The United Nations said Sunday as Iraqi forces launched their offensive to retake west Mosul that it was rushing to build more shelters ahead of an expected wave of displacement.

 

"We are racing against the clock to prepare emergency sites south of Mosul to receive displaced families," the UN`s humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Lise Grande, said in a statement.

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