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Trócaire is today launching an appeal in Ireland on behalf of Caritas International for $8 million for Iraq. Michael Jansen in Amman

The funds are for a Caritas Iraq programme to feed and provide medical care for three months for 260,000 internally displaced Iraqis living in the Mosul, Kirkuk, Baghdad and Basra regions.