'Call For Food Aid From Conflict-Hit Helmand Province', Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) / Reuters AlertNet, 13 May 2008

EXCERPT: "A provincial emergency response commission in insurgency-torn Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, has asked UN agencies and international aid organisations to provide food and non-food humanitarian relief to 4,200 families displaced by military operations in Garmsir District since the end of April. The commission - comprised of several government bodies, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) and local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) - has demanded relief supplies as 'a matter or urgency'. 'We are looking forward to receiving the requested aid from the UN and other donors,' Assadullah Mayar, president of the ARCS in Helmand and a member of the commission, told IRIN on the phone."

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