U.N. says donors pledge $3.8 billion to Syria crisis


  • World
  • Tuesday, 31 Mar 2015

KUWAIT (Reuters) - International donors have pledged $3.8 billion (2.56 billion pounds) to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Syria, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at a summit in the Kuwaiti capital on Tuesday.

The United Nations is seeking to help 18 million people inside Syria and those scattered throughout the region by more than four years of civil war, as well as the countries and communities that are struggling to host the flood of refugees.

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