Sentence examples for an aid operation from inspiring English sources

In the space of seven desperate days, the UN base has been transformed from a logistics hub for an aid operation into a squalid sanctuary for more than 10,000 people.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday that it had started an aid operation to deliver emergency food supplies to about 160,000 people in northern Mali affected by drought and fighting between radical Islamists, rebels and the government.

Local personnel make up the backbone of any aid operation.

But no one is forgetting the Northern Alliance's hasty grab for Kabul last month, nor the rivalry latent among its members, never mind the fears of Pushtuns and other minorities who mistrust it.Until a government with some authority is in place, it will be difficult to mount an effective aid operation, essential as that already is.

Some 50,000 Yazidis become trapped on Mount Sinjar without food or water, triggering an international aid operation.

Thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority were forced to flee Sinjar when jihadists overran the town two weeks ago, prompting an international aid operation and helping to trigger the US air strikes.

The United Nations agency for refugees is launching a major aid operation to reach more than half-a-million people displaced by fighting in northern Iraq.

The UN refugee agency has launched a major aid operation in northern Iraq, to help the half a million people who've been displaced by the fighting.

The United Nations is mounting a major aid operation to try and help more than half a million people who have fled for their lives from extremist Islamic State (IS) fighters in northern Iraq.

Meanwhile the UN's agency for refugees has launched a major aid operation to try and help more than half a million people displaced by fighting in the region.

But government "control" — and that term seems more aspirational than meaningful — does not translate into a smooth aid operation.