UN seeks $6.5 billion for Syria crisis in 2014
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The United Nations appealed for $6.5 billion for Syria and its neighbours on Monday to help 16 million people next year, many of them hungry or homeless victims of a 33-month-old conflict that has no end in sight.
The Syrian appeal accounted for half of an overall funding plan of $12.9 billion to help 52 million people in 17 countries, announced on Monday by UN emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos at a meeting of donor countries in Geneva. (Reuters)
