Long-distance call: a Syrian
refugee attempts to find a signal to make mobile-phone calls, at Al
Zaatri refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, near the Syria border, last
week. On Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António
Guterres, reported that the number of Syrians either registered as
refugees or being assisted as such had now reached one million (Comment, 1 March). "Syria
is spiralling towards full-scale disaster. . . This tragedy has to
be stopped," Mr Guterres said