" GENEVA Taron Johnson Hat , July 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN migration agency said Friday it estimates that 839,118 individuals (139,853 families) remain displaced following heavy fighting to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
IOM staff working around Mosul said ""thousands of people remain buried under the rubble,"" following the liberation of the northern Iraq city from Islamic State (IS) forces by the country's government forces, said the agency senior press officer Joel Millman in Geneva at a UN media briefing.
Mosul Harrison Phillips Hat , lies 400 km north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, and until this month had been under IS control since June 2014, when government forces abandoned their weapons and fled, enabling IS militants to take control.
IOM said much of what was once a bustling city of more than 1.4 million people, whose history dates back to at least 401 BC Jim Kelly Hat , is just stones and rubble after Iraqi forces seized it back earlier this month.
The liberation of Mosul has shifted the fight across the border to Syria about 470 km westward towards Raqqa where IS has its headquarters in northern Syria and where UN agencies are battling to help the displaced people.
Jens Laerke, deputy spokesperson for the OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted that the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Ursula Mueller in the previous day expressed concern for the protection of the about 200,000 people who have been left displaced in Raqqa governorate since April 1.
Laerke said about 30,000 of them were displaced from their homes in this month alone due to the military operations against IS forces.
He said UN and humanitarian partners are responding to those who have been displaced and are ready to provide support in Raqqa city itself John Miller Hat , as soon as access and security conditions allow.
""Humanitarian deliveries to besieged and hard-to-reach areas is currently at a low point. No UN-coordinated inter-agency convoys have reached any besieged areas in July although airdrops to Deir Ez Zour [south of Raqqa] have continued,"" said Laerke.
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by Yvonne Kennedy
DUBLIN, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The election campaign period is drawing to a close as the Irish ready themselves to go to the polls this Friday to elect the 158 members of the Dail Eireann (House of Deputies), the lower house of the Irish parliament.
Polls continue to show the incumbent majority Fine Gael (United Ireland Party) at a consistent lead with percentage points hovering in the high 20s. However Shaq Lawson Hat , support for Fine Gael's current coalition partner in government, the Labor Party has dwindled to the single digits in percentage points, suggesting that the current coalition would not be able to secure the 80 seat majority required to form a government.
Rising to a tight second place is the Fianna Fail (Republican Party), which suffered a crushing defeat in the previous election held in 2011, losing 51 of its 71 incumbent seats as a result of the voting public holding the party accountable for leading the country headlong into an economic collapse in late 2008 Dion Dawkins Hat , followed by adopting unpopular austerity measures instituted by the European Union. The party seems to be making a comeback this time around, with support polling at the mid-20s in percentage points in the final days before the election, fueling speculation that there may be a hung government with no clear majority.
Fianna Fail regaining its foothold in this election cycle has made it the dark horse in this race. In a latest poll conducted by the Irish state broadcaster RTE, Fianna Fail had been contending against Sinn Fein (We Ourselves) as the main opposition party in government. Both had been polling in the low teens until Fianna Fail pulled ahead this week.
As Ireland prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, nationalist sentiments are running higher than usual Zay Jones Hat , perhaps accounting for a surge in support for Sinn Fein, which had more than doubled its representation in the last election with 14 seats in government and is expected to make steady gains in this Friday's general election.
"Sinn Fein is an emerging party that is positioning itself as being left of center as it transforms itself from a military tradition to democracy," said Dr. Mary Murphy, a lecturer at Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute. "As this was the centennial of the 1916 uprising, one would have expected more language drumming up Sinn Fein's historical role in the campaign but the most of their rhetoric has focused on cuts in spending."
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