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...soldiers, brave and resourceful though they may be, will be able to do little to head off a looming humanitarian disaster. Afghanistan is one of the poorest, most war-racked and drought-ridden places on earth. So far, humanitarian drops of food by U.S. planes have had little impact on the food shortage. A man from Nangarhar province who arrived in Peshawar last week told doctors that some people in his village were afraid to open the food parcels; during the Soviet war, many Afghans were maimed by toys and packets of cigarettes dropped from planes--and booby-trapped with...
...quarter of Afghan children die before age five. Afghans have one of the world's lowest per-person caloric intakes (an average of 1,500 calories daily) and one of the highest rates of land-mine-related amputees (1 out of 273 people). Three years of drought on top of 22 years of war have produced widespread famine. Fighting and hunger have uprooted huge numbers of civilians. More than 3 million Afghans already huddle in bordering states, and the U.N. fears 1.5 million more will flee the country in the current fighting. When the war ends, the country...
Northern Afghanistan subsists in biblical times - except for the Kalashnikovs, that is. There is no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no running water. The average lifespan is less than 50 years. A three year drought has ground everything into a yellow dust, a choking powder that clogs lungs and obscures hope...
...Ibrahim, a veteran of the mujahedin struggle against the Soviets from 1979-89, has a small farm at the base of the mountains in Nangarhar. He used to harvest wheat and corn and grow walnuts, apricots and grapes on his land. But since the onset of drought, he hasn't been able to grow enough to live on, so he came to Karkhla. He is not officially registered as a refugee and has no ID papers, but the Pakistani police leave people like him alone as long as they don't try to make their way to a major city...
Westfall, whose six goals last season were second on the team only to Yenne’s 11, has yet to score this year outside of a penalty kick in the season opener. She had a golden chance to break that drought on a setup deep in the box, but with little time to react, she powered the ball straight into Thomas’ hands...