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18.12.2012. Over 700,000 people could be
displaced if military intervention goes ahead next year in northern Mali,
according to preliminary estimates by humanitarian agencies, who stress that
the numbers are just approximations.
This includes some 300,000 internally displaced
Malians (a significant increase on the current 198,550) and 407,000 refugees
(currently 156,819), most of them headed to Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger,
Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal and Algeria.
Over recent months humanitarian actors
have been using risk and threat models to develop likely disaster scenarios,
with a view to mapping out what their response might look like - an exercise
fraught with difficulty given the uncertainties involved.
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