Aid groups 'can't cope' with spate of global conflicts

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• I can imagine how stretched out they are. The way it is going there will be more refugees than there were after World War II.
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  Aid groups 'can't cope' with spate of global conflicts

Antonio Guterres, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, said the spike in the number of people being displaced by wars indicated that global peace and security was facing "the worst crisis of the last decades". Already overstretched aid agencies will soon be "totally unable even to provide the minimum support to the victims", he warned. Speaking last night, Mr Guterres said the world was facing an unprecedented "multiplication of conflicts" which had overwhelmed aid agencies. He cited the situations in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, South Sudan and the Central African Republic as examples.

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