The violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis - nearly one in three - in need of emergency aid, says a report released today by international agency Oxfam and NCCI, a network of aid organisations working in Iraq .
According to the report:
· Four million Iraqis - 15% - regularly cannot buy enough to eat.
· 70% are without adequate water supplies, compared to 50% in 2003.
· 28% of children are malnourished, compared to 19% before the 2003 invasion. · 92% of Iraqi children suffer learning problems, mostly due to the climate of fear.
· More than two million people - mostly women and children - have been displaced inside Iraq .
· A further two million Iraqis have become refugees, mainly in Syria and Jordan .
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