Word: drought
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...Bush administration announced last Thursday that it would seek $320 million in humanitarian aide for the people of Afghanistan, many of whom are fleeing the country hoping to escape the attacks. A summer drought has already contributed to the hardships the population faces...
...passage in the liturgy for Yom Kippur, the somber Jewish holiday of repentance, bids believers to speculate on the ways to die. "Who by fire and who by water," they read in unison. "Who by the sword and who by wild beasts, who by famine and who by drought..." It is a hard passage. Wild beasts? There are usually some raised eyebrows...
...Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are scouting out locations within the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan's government estimates a need for about 100 new camps, each able to shelter 10,000 people. "Water is scarce," says UNHCR's spokesman Rupert Colville in Quetta, "There has been a drought for three years." Relief officials say as many as 10,000 Afghans may have already slipped into Pakistan in recent days and are being sheltered by fellow clansmen, invisible inside the fortress-like tribal homes of the harsh borderlands...
...Even in the '60s, Tuareg society was struggling. Drought and government decree were relegating traditions?nomadism, historic hierarchies, the methodology for naming children?to the social scrap heap. The pace of change has only quickened. Tamanrasset, once a sleepy Sahara town, is now a real city, full of "big trucks, smaller trucks, jalopies, pickups of every conceivable make and era, cars, mopeds and bicycles; but no camels." Many Tuareg who have shunned city life make camp with government-issue tents instead of animal skins and wooden poles. Tagella, an unleavened flatbread, is still a staple. But these days...
...Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil warned that more aid agencies, including the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), might be implicated in the investigation into Christian proselytizing. WFP described the allegations as "baseless" and said it had never been involved in propagating religion anywhere. TAJIKISTAN No Rain, No Grain A two-year drought has left a million people facing starvation in the former Soviet Union's poorest country. Launching an appeal for international aid, the Red Cross said that children were scavenging ratholes in wheat fields in search of grain, after crops failed. More than 80% of Tajiks live below the poverty line...