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Syria - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #16, Fiscal Year (FY) 2013

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Syrian refugees exceed 1.5 million

  • J-RANS II finds significant deterioration of the humanitarian situation

  • Health needs grow more acute

  • Donor funding increases ahead of revision to U.N. appeals

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Syria Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 25 | 7 – 20 May 2013 [EN/AR]

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Mounting concerns that public health crisis may aggravate Syria humanitarian situation. 420,000 Palestine refugees unable to meet basic needs.
  • UN inter-agency cross-line assistance to almost 1 million Syrians despite security and access challenges.
  • Syrian refugee population up by nearly 1 million people since January.
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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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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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Global Food Security Update - Issue 10, May 2013

Food security levels are generally better than a year earlier in East Africa and the Sahel, with most areas facing either IPC phase 1 ‘minimal’ or phase 2 ‘stressed’ conditions, thanks to favorable agro-climatic conditions in 2012.

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Syria crisis: the EU responds to spiralling needs with more emergency humanitarian aid

An additional €65 million will assist four million people who have been forced to flee their homes and in neighbouring countries that have generously welcomed some 1.4 million refugees.

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Syria Humanitarian Bulletin, Issue 24, 23 April – 6 May 2013 [EN/AR]

Movement by internally displaced persons continues to be large-scale and fluid, as many Syrians are displaced multiple times. The estimated number of IDPs now stands at 4.25 million.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of 30 April 2013) [EN/AR]

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Armed conflicts, insecurity, protracted displacement and natural disasters affect millions of people across the region.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Nigeria + 11 others
Mediterranean Review - 30 April 2013

This document provides an overview of developments in the Mediterranean Basin and other regions of interest from 16 – 29 April 2013, with hyperlinks to source material highlighted and underlined in the text. For more information on the topics below or other issues pertaining to the region, please contact the members of the Med Basin Team, or visit our website at www.cimicweb.org.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

In Focus 1
North Africa 2
Northeast Africa 4
Horn of Africa 5

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Regional Analysis Syria - 30 April 2013

Humanitarian needs increase as the overall situation deteriorates, bureaucratic obstacles and insecurity hamper access to affected populations and tensions between refugees and host communities rise.

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Overtaken by need: The world’s failure to meet Syria’s escalating humanitarian crisis

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Oxfam

Aid agency calls for improved humanitarian access to Syria as needs escalate

Refugee numbers in neighboring countries steadily climb

The world risks failing the people of Syria as the scale of suffering increases and the humanitarian fall-out from the crisis worsens by the day, warned aid agency Oxfam today.

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Syria Humanitarian Needs Overview, 26 April 2013

This overview provides an outline of the situation, facts about the affected population and the socio-economic impact of the crisis, as well as in-depth sectoral and operational analysis.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Syria: Humanitarian Snapshot (25 April 2013) [EN/AR]

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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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ECHO Factsheet Syria - 22 April 2013

Key messages

• Imperative that additional assistance addresses the needs of displaced populations throughout Syria and not just in the "hotspots".

• Need to increase the number of authorized humanitarian organizations and to ease administrative procedures for the provision of aid inside Syria to cope with growing needs.

• Donors urgently need to provide and expand assistance to neighbouring countries hosting refugees.