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UN: Half of Syria's population will need aid by end of year

By REUTERS

JUNE 7, 2013 15:09

GENEVA - The United Nations expects 10.25 million Syrians, half the population, will need humanitarian aid by the end of 2013 at a cost of more than $5 billion, UN humanitarian agencies said on Friday.

The new forecasts, in an updated Syria response plan, include more than a doubling of the refugee population to 3.45 million from 1.6 million now, spread across Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.

But it forecasts no increase in the number of Syrians within the country who will need aid between now and the end of the year, with the figure put at 6.8 million.

The UN World Food Program (WFP), which has delivered 500 million meals in Syria so far this year, expects its weekly costs to rise from almost $20 million now to $36 million after September. It says it has a funding shortfall of about $725 million.

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