BEIRUT — As the Syrian refugee crisis worsens in neighboring countries, the backlog of undelivered funds from donor countries, including the United States, is starting to severely strain aid agencies’ ability to deliver basic services, the United Nations says.
Pledges from major international donors to ease the Syrian humanitarian crisis remain high, but so far most countries have failed to actually deliver the promised totals, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a press conference earlier this week.
“We have raised just 40 per cent of the $4.4 billion needed for Syria and neighboring countries for this year,” Ban said in a statement on Tuesday that was largely overshadowed by a new U.N. report into the use of chemical weapons inside Syria. “I call on Governments to help us meet this unprecedented crisis while still meeting their commitments to other emergencies.”
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