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Mr loser, you do realize Afghanistan just went through almost 3 decades of war after being invaded? Why dont you run off and start researching about how life in Afghanistan was before the wars. While you're at it check how US stopped sending aid to Afghanistan during the Taliban rule causing what you posted above.
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Mr Loser,how very mature of you.
My post dealt with the situation as reported by IRIN, too bad if you want to study the past go ahead i've better things to do.
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How the heck do you expect a country to recover after war if the whole world ignored it, especially the 'super-powers' that gave it weapons to overthrow the Communists. But as soon as the Communists left, so did those people who no longer saw any interest or benefit in Afghanistan
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As to more recent aid take a look at these figure and then at the difficulties of delivery
Afghanistan: Overseas Aid
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on delivery of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. [149531]
Mr. Malik: According to the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA)(1), the following has been contributed to the humanitarian effort in Afghanistan over the last three years:
US $
2004
162,366,273
2005
79,906,460
2006
153,181,425
Prior to 2003, the majority of DFID aid to Afghanistan was focused on immediate reconstruction and humanitarian needs. In 2003-04, the focus shifted to long- term developmental programmes in support of the government of Afghanistan.
DFID still retains some limited capacity to respond to humanitarian crises. For example, in 2006-07 the UK committed the following humanitarian aid to Afghanistan: £1 million for drought mitigation; £1.2 million to support HALO Trust's de-mining programme; and £30,000 to provide food and other essential items like soap and blankets for 3,000 internally displaced families in Helmand.
Security concerns present difficulties for NGOs and development workers wishing to operate in some areas, particularly the south. This is why the presence of NATO forces, and British troops in Helmand, are essential to create the conditions in which humanitarian aid can be delivered more effectively. The vast majority of Afghans want to see a peaceful, prosperous, democratic country. We will continue to support them.
AFGHANISTAN: WFP suspends food aid deliveries after attack
Photo: Masoud Popalzai/IRIN
From January 2006 to December 2008, at a cost of US$372 million, WFP plans to distribute 520,000 metric tonnes of food aid to 6.6 million vulnerable Afghans
KABUL, 10 September 2007 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has temporarily withheld movement of food in southwestern Afghanistan after a convoy delivering food aid to Afghan deportees from Iran was attacked, WFP told IRIN.
A 14-truck WFP convoy, which was carrying 500 tonnes of food, and was escorted by over 110 armed police, came under fire on the Herat-Nimruz highway in Farah Province, southwestern Afghanistan, on 8 September.
At least four police officers and 10 assailants were killed in the fighting, Gulam Dastgheer Azad, the governor of Nimruz, said.
All trucks were commercially hired by the UN food agency, but none displayed UN markings.
“My own view is that the attackers are primarily thieves more than those with political motivations,” Rick Carsino, WFP representative in Afghanistan, told IRIN in Kabul.
This is not the first time unidentified armed men have attacked and looted food aid trucks in the restive southern provinces of Afghanistan: According to WFP, over 25 incidents of attacks on food aid convoys have happened so far in 2007.