TWENTY foreign UN workers have been given the green light by the Syrian government to monitor the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo.

UN humanitarian affairs spokesman Jens Laerke said the UN monitors would arrive “as soon as they can.” It takes the total of UN workers to 120 and the number of foreigners to 30.

Meanwhile the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that 10 buses had arrived into western Aleppo carrying evacuees from insurgent-besieged villages Foua and Kffarya.