Iraq – Sinjar residents complain about the lack of aid despite the UNDP’s handover of a number of houses  

Sinjar -Ninawa Governorate – Iraq 16/05/2019

Although the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) had handed over and rebuilt the Yazidis who have returned, a number of houses that were heavily destroyed during the battles with ISIS, in Sinjar district, west of Ninawa governorate, the residents of the area are still complaining about the absence of aid from international and governmental organizations and the lack of basic services such as water, electricity and health care, which is making their lives very difficult, a number of residents stressed that there is an obvious neglect from the central government side, and that without the presence of humanitarian organizations Sinjar would have become unfit for a living, with approximately 18 thousand families, which is about 15% of the population of Sinjar, have returned to Sinjar district and its outskirts after the recession of international foreign aid and grants for the camps of displaced refugees in Duhok.