Militær intervention i Mali kan ende i masseforflytning

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Over 700.000 borgere kan ende med at blive forflyttet, hvis en militær intervention gennemføres næste år i det nordlige Mali, rapporterer Irin News tirsdag.

DAKAR, 18. december, 2012 (IRIN): 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.

“It is almost impossible to predict what is going to happen where and when – everything is very broad,” said Philippe Conraud, West Africa emergency coordinator with Oxfam, which is working in Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso.

Læs videre på: http://irinnews.org/Report/97076/Mali-Humanitarian-impact-of-armed-intervention

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