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UN launches $6.5bn Syria appeal

Refugees to nearly double by end 2014

Agencies
The United Nations has launched an appeal for $6.5bn for Syria and its neighbours to help 16 million people in 2014, many of whom are hungry or homeless victims of a 33-month-old Syrian conflict that has no end in sight.
The number of Syrian refugees in the Middle East will nearly double over the next year to exceed four million, the United Nations said yesterday as it launched its appeal for funds.
Another 9.3 million people are expected to be in need of aid inside the war-ravaged nation by the end of next year, with millions displaced from their homes, the UN's humanitarian agency (OGHA) said.
The civil war between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels seeking his overthrow has raged
for 33 months and killed more than 126,000 people.
The crisis has put an enormous strain on neighbouring countries, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are sheltering in tents as the winter sets in.
Some 4.1 million Syrians will be living as refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt by the end of 2014, up from an estimated 2.4 million today, according to the latest estimate.
In all, 660,000 Syrians will be living in refugee camps by the end of 2014, while another 3.44 million will be living in private accommodation, the UN said.
The Syrian appeal accounted for half of an overall funding plan of $12.9bn to help 52 million people in 17 countries. It was announced yesterday by the UN emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos at a meeting of donor countries in Geneva.
"This is the largest amount we have ever had to request at the start of the year," she told a news conference, referring to the worldwide appeal. She said the money requested for Syria was the largest UN appeal ever for a single crisis.
"The increasing number of internally displaced people and refugees is generating greater needs across all sectors and straining the capacities of neighbouring countries, with profound regional consequences," the appeal said of Syria.
The UN sent its first delivery ofhumani-tarian aid to Syria from Iraq on Sunday and said it planned to deliver more food and winter supplies to the mainly Kurdish north-east in the next 12 days.
It is seeking $2.3bn to help 9.3 million people in Syria alone next year, compared with $1.4bn from the 2013 appeal. Of the latter, only 62% has yet been received, UN figures show.