New UN Humanitarian Plan Aims to Benefit 7 Mln Afghans
17 February 2010
New UN Humanitarian Plan Aims to Benefit 7 Mln Afghans, CRI English, 17 February 2010
EXCERPT: "The United Nations and the Afghan government Wednesday unveiled the 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP), which aims to benefit more than 7 million vulnerable Afghans. The deteriorating security situation in the war-torn country, together with natural disasters including avalanches, earthquakes, drought, floods and extreme winters, have...
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No Camp for Marjah Displaced
17 February 2010
Afghanistan: No Camp for Marjah Displaced, IRIN News, 17 February 2010
EXCERPT: "The government and aid agencies have decided not to set up a camp for hundreds of families displaced by fighting between pro-government forces and the Taliban in the Marjah area of the southern province of Helmand.' We don't want to make this a protracted emergency where people would remain in a camp indefinitely,' Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman...
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Afghanistan Taliban "Using Human Shields": General
17 February 2010
Afghanistan Taliban "Using Human Shields": General, BBC News, 17 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Taliban militants are increasingly using civilians as 'human shields' as they battle against a joint Afghan-Nato offensive, an Afghan general has said. Gen Mohiudin Ghori said his soldiers had seen Taliban fighters placing women and children on the roofs of buildings and firing from behind them. The joint offensive in southern...
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Maldives: Taliban Met with Afghan Govt Envoys
17 February 2010
, The Associated Press, 17 February 2010
EXCERPT: "Taliban representatives held peace talks with Afghan government envoys at the end of January on a resort island in the Maldives, a spokesman for the president of the Indian Ocean nation said Wednesday. The three-day talks were aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing Afghan war, but the Maldivian government was not directly involved...
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