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Egypt + 1 other
Egypt Weekly Update Syrian Operation May 7th – May 13th 2013

HIGHLIGHTS

Total number of Syrian refugees registered and awaiting registrations with UNHCR in Egypt stands at 66,420 individuals as of 13th of May 2013.

On Wednesday the 8th of May 2013, a fund raising event for the aid of Syrian refugees, took place at the Cairo Opera House. The event was organized by the British Embassy and UNHCR and was under the patronage of the Secretary General of the Arab League Dr. Nabil Al-Arabi.

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Turkey + 1 other
UNHCR Turkey Syrian Refugee Daily Sitrep 17 May 2013

Highlights

• On 16 May 2013, AFAD - the Disaster and Emergency Management Agency of Government of Turkey announced that the total number of Syrians registered and accommodated in 17 camps in 8 provinces has increased to 194,425 including 336 Syrians receiving medical treatment in hospitals.

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Somalia + 8 others
Somalia Fact Sheet - May 2013

Operation Highlights

Somalia is the country generating the third highest number of refugees in the world, after Afghanistan and Iraq. UNHCR leads protection and emergency relief interventions targeting 700,000 IDPs out of a total IDP population estimated at 1.1 million and over 2,300 refugees in Somalia.

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Somalia + 1 other
UNHCR Somalia Operational Highlights 6-12 May 2013

Political and Security South-central:

On 6 May, Al Shabab fighters ambushed the Raskambooni police base in Dobley town.
The armed clashes lasted more than half an hour and one Raskambooni soldier died during the attack and three others were seriously injured. Two days later, the militants launched another hit and run attack against the Somali government forces manning a checkpoint at Shaqalaha neighborhood on the exit road to Afmadow west of Kismayo.

No casualties were reported. Tension remains high in Dobley and its surrounding areas.

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Chad + 2 others
UNHCR prepositioning aid for Darfur refugees in Tissi ahead of rains in eastern Chad

The UN refugee agency is prepositioning aid for tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in eastern Chad amid fears heavy rains will cut off access.

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Syria refugee numbers cross 1.5 million as funding gaps remain

The fact that more than 1.5 million people have registered or have appointments with UNHCR means the actual number is much higher. The increasingly widening gap between the needs and resources available is a growing challenge.

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Turkey + 1 other
UNHCR Turkey Syrian Refugee Daily Sitrep 16 May 2013

Highlights

• No new official figures have been announced by the Government of Turkey on 15 May 2013, therefore the total number of Syrians registered and accommodated in 17 camps in 8 provinces remained the same at 193,767, including 364 who are under medical treatment in the hospitals. This is an increase of approx. 31% since end of Dec. 2012.

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Senegal + 9 others
La bourse DAFI, clef du succès pour les réfugiés les plus brillants

Dakar, 16 mai (HCR) – Abdoulaye Ndongo, âgé de 37 ans, est arrivé au Sénégal en 1989. Il avait 13 ans. Il se rappelle encore ce jour d'été, où il a été déporté de Mauritanie pour le Sénégal avec seulement les vêtements qu'il portait ce jour-là. Toutefois, Ndongo a eu la chance de traverser le fleuve Sénégal sans être séparé de ses parents, ce qui n'a pas été le cas pour beaucoup d'autres enfants réfugiés.

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Turkey + 4 others
Inter-Agency Regional Response for Syrian refugees - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey 9-15 May 2013

REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

  • 1.5 million refugees are placing unprecedented strain on communities, infrastructure and services in host countries. Humanitarian actors are focused on alleviating the burden on host Governments and mitigating tensions between refugee and local communities.