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Nearly 170,000 flee violence in Syria's Afrin: UN

Nearly170,000peoplehavefledafteraTurkish-ledassaultontheKurdish-majoritySyriancityofAfrin,theUNsaidFriday,pointingtotheharrowingconditionsfacedbythosedisplaced.

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World Refugee Day: 65.6 million people displaced worldwide

Theamountofpeopledisplacedbyconflicts,violence,andpersecutionaroundtheworldhasreached65.6million,markingajumpof300,000comparedwithlastyear,accordingtoareportpub

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Total number of displaced people in Iraq's Mosul exceeds 200,000 mark

As of Sunday, a total of 206,520 individuals have been forced into displacement as a result of the ongoing Mosul operations which began on Oct.17, 2016, a tracking system developed by the International Organization for Migrants (IOM) showed.

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Displaced Afghan families seek assistance, plead for lasting peace amid increasing strife

"Our living conditions are becoming unbearable due to the security situation here getting worse and we are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance to survive, particularly as Afghanistan's bone-chilling winter is fast-approaching," head of a displaced family, Bismillah, 35, told Xinhua recently.

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Sri Lanka to conduct survey to address war displacement issue

A social survey is to be conducted jointly by the Sri Lankan government and UN agencies to assess the requirements with regard to accelerated resettlement of the war displaced in the north of the country, the government said on Wednesday.

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Sri Lanka to adopt national policy to deal with war displaced

The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday announced that it will have a national policy to deal with war affected families.

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More rain for flood-ravaged south China

More rain is on the way for south China, where rain-triggered floods have already displaced tens of thousands of people, according to the national observatory forecast on Monday.

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Over 114,000 people uprooted by fighting in central Iraq

​The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that more than 114,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Ramadi, a city in central Iraq, and humanitarian agencies and partners continue to respond to the needs of these displaced people, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, told reporters here Monday.

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3,200 people displaced after massacre in northeast Nigeria

At least 3,200 people were displaced in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State after a deadly attack by suspected Boko Haram militants last week in Baga town, the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Monday.

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UN refugee agency warns of winter crisis for displaced Iraqis, Syrians

​The UN refugee agency ( UNHCR) has warned that an ongoing funding shortage could leave as many as a million refugees across Iraq and Syria without proper help as they prepare for the winter, a UN spokesperson said here Tuesday.

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UN major relief effort underway in north Iraq with 100-ton airlift to Erbil

A massive United Nations aid operation for displaced Iraqis is underway as a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) cargo jet carrying 100 tons of humanitarian supplies landed in a northern city of the country on Wednesday, a UN spokesman told reporters here.

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Pakistani offensive against Taliban militants uproots over 455,000 people

More than 455,000 people have been displaced since the start of Pakistan's military offensive against Taliban militants in the north of the country over a week ago and the number continues to rise, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday.

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Syria's reconstruction bill on the rise as destruction continues

A recent survey showed that the reconstruction of conflict-devastated Syria would require some six million workers and between 60 and 200 billion U.S. dollars.

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Death toll in S. Philippine flooding climbs to 7

The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains in southern Philippines climbed to seven, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Thursday. 

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Over 100 people killed, 70,000 displaced in Sudan's fresh tribal clashes: UNAMID

Over 100 people were killed and about 70,000 others displaced in recent tribal clashes between the Arab Abballa and Beni Hussein tribes in Jabel Amir area of Sudan's North Darfur state, the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said in a statement on Thursday.