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More than half a million Syrian refugees
have now been registered or are awaiting registration in neighbouring countries
and North Africa, and the numbers are currently climbing by more than 3,000 per
day, the United Nations refugee agency announced today.
“According to UNHCR’s latest figures from
Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and North Africa, 509,559 Syrians are either
already registered or in the process of being registered,” the chief
spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
Melissa Fleming, told a news briefing in Geneva today.
Some
425,160 are registered and another 84,399 are in the process of being
registered. As of Monday, she added, the latest figures of registered Syrian
refugees or those awaiting registration in each country are: Lebanon, 154,387;
Jordan, 142,664; Turkey, 136,319; Iraq, 64,449; and North Africa, 11,740.
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