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August 21, 2014

U.N. Launches Aid Effort in Northern Iraq 
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The United Nations has launched a massive relief effort aimed at
reaching half a million people displaced by the advance of Islamic State
militants in northern Iraq. Edward Colt, spokesperson for the U.N.
refugee agency, said many are in need.

Edward Colt: "The needs are absolutely massive right now. We have had
1.2 million people displaced in this country since January. Hundreds of
thousands just in the last week alone, so in the next 10 days we will be
bringing some 2,500 tons of aid, sending it out to those in need. And
again, they are in need because we see it every day, people who are
living in churches, mosques, by the side of the road, in schools, in
unfinished buildings."

 

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