UN: $12.9 billion aid needs in 2014, half to Syria

UN: $12.9 billion aid needs in 2014, half to Syria

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations said today it needs almost $13 billion to meet some of the world’s biggest humanitarian needs in 2014, and almost half of that amount would go to Syria and its surrounding region. The request is meant to reach 52 million people in 17 countries, and is the largest amount that the U.N. and its partner agencies have ever asked at the start of the year to meet global humanitarian needs, officials said.