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| Subject: That's statism for you: Syrian refugees top 700,000 as exodus swells Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:38 am | |
| More than 700,000 Syrian refugees have registered in neighboring countries or await processing there, and aid workers are struggling to keep up with the exodus, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
"We have seen an unrelenting flow of refugees across all borders. We are running double shifts to register people," Sybella Wilkes, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told Reuters in Geneva.
Jordan hosts 167,444 registered Syrian refugees, as well as 51,729 who await processing, many of who fled fighting around Deraa, according to UNHCR figures posted overnight that show an overall regional total of about 705,000 refugees as of January 27.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/us-syria-crisis-refugees-idUSBRE90S0AR20130129 |
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