Traumatized Malians desperately in need of aid, says U.N.

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Traumatized Malians desperately in need of aid, says U.N.

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/traumatized-malians-desperately-aid-says-u-n-214613097.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/X9p0xgb0TdmXctZ5.OEwWA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-02-26T214613Z_1_CBRE91P1OH500_RTROPTP_2_MALI-REBELS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Women walk with baskets on their heads in Gao" align="left" title="Women walk with baskets on their heads in Gao" border="0" /></a>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Malians in the country's vast desert north are scared and in desperate need of aid, traumatized at the hands of Islamist extremists and fearful of ethnic reprisals by government troops, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said on Tuesday. John Ging, director of operations for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said a U.N. appeal for $373 million to fund aid operations in the West African state had so far only received $17 million. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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