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Wednesday, 29 May, 2002, 00:36 GMT 01:36 UK
Cash shortage threatens Afghan aid
The return of refugees is under threat
The International Office for Migration (IOM) says it has just 48 hours before it has to stop many of its operations and the World Food Programme claims that it has already had to cut back rations to returnees in Kandahar and eastern Afghanistan.
The IOM has already had to scale back transportation programmes in north and western Afghanistan.
Unless it receives more money by Thursday, it says it is likely to have to stop repatriating refugees from Iran, meaning the 2,500 people who are coming back each day, will now have no means of getting home. The World Food Programme says its situation is critical. With a month to go before the July harvest and with winter stocks exhausted, the organisation is looking at a food shortage of more than 50,000 tonnes. Bad timing Already the school feeding programme in Mazar-e-Sharif has been cut back dramatically. Two hundred and twenty thousand children had receiving meals at school - now just 50,000 are benefiting.
"We have to stop, or reduce, some of our programmes like food for refugees coming back home, for displaced people, for people suffering from drought, also for school feeding. "The situation is bad because it is the worst time of the year for those people." The World Food Programme says a greater number than expected of refugees returning to Afghanistan has stretched its budget to the limit. It asked for $285m to cover its aid projects but, so far, has received less than half of that amount. |
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