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Feb
2013
UNHCR running out of registration space
Stephen Dockery The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon receiving aid from the United Nations is approaching 200,000, as the body’s aid agency warned it doesn’t have enough space to handle the refugees’ registration. Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour is scheduled to travel to Cairo Saturday to discuss donor aid at a meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers, and Friday he said he had sent a brief outlining Lebanon’s need for $180 million in funding. In a statement carried by the National News Agency, Mansour said the total package of about $180 million was being outstripped by the steady rise in…
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