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BBC NewsLast Updated: Monday, 30 July 2007, 00:02 GMT 01:02 UK
Third of Iraqis 'need urgent aid'Nearly a third of the population of Iraq is in need of
immediate emergency aid, according to a new report from
Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi NGOs.
The report said the Iraqi government was failing to provide
basic essentials such as water, sanitation, food, and shelter
to up to eight million people.
It warned the continuing violence was masking a humanitarian
crisis that had grown worse since the invasion in 2003.
It also found that four million Iraqis had been uprooted by
the violence.
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The ScotsmanViolence 'masking a humanitarian crisis'LOUISE GRAY
ONE in three Iraqis need immediate emergency aid but conflict
in the country "masks the humanitarian crisis", according to
a new report.
Although the everyday threat of armed violence is the biggest
problem facing most ordinary Iraqis, eight million - almost a
third - are in urgent need of water, sanitation, food and
shelter, the report by Oxfam and the aid agency network NGO
Co-ordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI) said.
According to the report, four million citizens - 15 per cent
- regularly cannot afford to eat; 70 per cent are without
adequate water supplies; 28 per cent of children are
malnourished; 92 per cent of children suffer learning problems
and more than two million people - mostly women and children
- have been displaced inside Iraq. A further two million Iraqi
refugees have fled the country, mainly to Syria and Jordan.
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