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| Jordan Says Hosting Syrian Refugees Has Cost $10 Billion | |
| 2017-10-11 | |
The U.N. says that some 650,000 Syrian refugees are currently being housed in Jordan, but the government puts the figure far higher at around 1.3 million people. In a statement released on social media, the foreign ministry said "more than $10.3 billion" (8.7 billion euros) had been spent on putting up the refugees. That figure covered additional expenses in sectors including health, education and employment, and also extra money spent on public services and subsidized food, it said. Jordan, which shares a 370 kilometer (230 mile) border with Syria, estimates that almost $1.7 billion will be needed to cover the refugees this year. The kingdom -- which has called for the international community to do more on the crisis -- has recently come under fire from Human Rights Watch for allegedly "summarily deporting" Syrian refugees. The group said that on average some 400 refugees were being removed each month at the start of 2017 in a move that could be aimed at preventing the violence in Syria spilling over onto Jordanian territory after several armed attacks. Authorities insisted that any return of refugees to Syria was voluntary and that they only headed to areas in the country that are considered safe. The U.N. refugee agency says 93 percent of the Syrian refugees in Jordan live below the poverty line. Around 180,000 of them are housed in two sprawling camps in the desert. Fighting in Syria has claimed more than 330,000 lives since a brutal crackdown by the army on protesters in 2011 spiraled into all-out conflict. The U.N. estimates that more than five million Syrians have been driven from the country by fighting, with the majority settling in neighboring ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Leb and Jordan. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Why do you need to 'host' refugees. That makes is sound like they built a camp and feed/clothe and pay them or something. Give them some kind of voucher/loan to get started on renting a place, keep track of them so they can be repatriated in time. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-10-11 20:16 |
| #5 And maybe if the Gulf oil states weren't busy funding their own brands of terrorism they'd have more to alleviate the plight of their victims. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-11 15:59 |
| #4 Better for whom? I like low prices at the pump. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-11 15:58 |
| #3 The Saudis and the rest of the Gulf "countries" have been donating money to their penurious brother Sunni states, but they have considerably less to give at the moment for some reason. It'll be better when oil prices go back up to the $100 range, Abu Uluque. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-11 12:49 |
| #2 Can't get the Soddies to help? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-11 11:28 |
| #1 US aid to Jordan totals $1.3 billion in 2017 also: Jordan: U.S. Foreign Aid (1996 - Present) |
| Posted by: Hupiper Mussolini3316 2017-10-11 04:48 |