Western, Arab states pledge $1.4 billion in fresh Syria aid




 
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January 15th, 2014  
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Western, Arab states pledge <img .4 billion in fresh Syria aid
By Sylvia Westall and Warren Strobel KUWAIT (Reuters) - Western and Gulf Arab nations pledged $1.4 billion on Wednesday for United Nations aid efforts in Syria, where an almost three-year-old civil war has left millions of people hungry, ailing or displaced. The pledge arose from an appeal for $6.5 billion launched last month that is the largest in U.N. history. The world body estimates that the conflict has reversed development gains in Syria by 35 years, with half its people now living in poverty. But only 70 percent of $1.5 billion pledged at a similar meeting last year has reached U.N. coffers, hinting at donor fatigue with no end to the bloodshed on the horizon.




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