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After three years of drought, five years of failed harvests and 22 years of war, the refugees have exhausted their meager savings and killed their livestock. In August the camps around Mazar-i-Sharif had a two-week supply of food. After Sept. 11 all aid was suspended as agencies withdrew; 230 have died in Dehdadi since then. Others have fled into the frozen mountains rather than live in a war zone. Without food or water, many have surely perished. Now, with the Taliban's retreat, the way to better-supplied camps near Pakistan is open--but many...
...people are miracle workers inside Afghanistan. Their challenge is daunting: Over 1.5 million Afghans are displaced inside the country, having left their homes because of a combination of war and a devastating three-year drought. Others are now fleeing due to the prolonged bombing and for fear of retaliation by those who may soon take power. They need food, shelter and medicine. All face starvation. The harsh winter has started. The pessimists say it already may be too late...
...Hopi Indians have hung eagle prayer feathers in threatened wells and springs across their sprawling reservation in northeastern Arizona in hope that the water will return and that the drought of recent years will break. But many believe a shortage of rain is only part of the problem...
...Even before the bombs started falling, around 2.5 million Afghans had fled 20 years of war and four years of drought and crossed into neighboring Pakistan. Of the 22 million who remained in their benighted country, around 4 million depended on food donated by foreign charities. World Food Program executive director Catherine Bertini said last week that the WFP needs to ship around 52,000 tons of wheat a month into Afghanistan to feed the hungry. "If there are serious impediments," she warned, "then we could be looking at a humanitarian catastrophe." Bertini's apprehension was shared by six international...
...Ping, a graduate student in philosophy, spoke about humanitarian concerns, such as hunger, drought and closed borders, that affect Afghanistan...