KABUL, Jan 1 (AFP) - As Afghan carpenters hammered away to renovate the German embassy here, diplomat Ursula Mueller was contemplating the rather bigger task of helping to rebuild war-torn Afghanistan.

Berlin has earmarked some 133 million euro (118 million dollars) for emergency aid projects in Afghanistan in a bid to help the country ravaged by more than two decades of conflict, and further devastated by the US-led war on terror.

"Our main focus is help with reconstruction, above all through education," said Mueller, 44.

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01 Jan 2002

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Vaccination campaign starts for nine million Afghan children

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— Agence France-Presse

KABUL, Jan 1 (AFP) - A campaign to vaccinate nine million Afghan children against measles and rubella began Tuesday.

The programme is organised by the United Nations children's fund UNICEF for children aged from six months to 12 years.

"About 140 children came on the first day," said Sheila Azimi, a doctor at Kabul's Indira Gandhi children's hospital, who was being helped by five other staff.

Measles and rubella (German measles) are the commonest childhood diseases both in Afghanistan and the rest of the world.

The United Nations says some 35,000 children

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01 Jan 2002

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Central Asia Region - Complex emergency fact sheet #40 (FY02)

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— US Agency for International Development

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
CENTRAL ASIA TASK FORCE

Note: This Fact Sheet updates previously released Central Asia Region Fact Sheets and Situation Reports.

Numbers Affected

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), 7.5 million Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance including food, shelter, health, education, and demining initiatives.

Relief Activities

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01 Jan 2002

Afghanistan
Focus on Afghanistan

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— UN Development Programme

(FromJanuary Transitions Newsletter.)
UNDP has developed a strategy paper describing the four areas of responsibility identified as its priorities in the relief and recovery of Afghanistan.

The first pillar, designed by the country team, looks at quick impact and immediate recovery programmes, initiated as soon as possible, for the UN to return to Afghanistan.

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
WFP Food Deliveries vs. Requirements: 31 Dec 2001

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— World Food Programme

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
Man from Edmonds, Washington spends Christmas, New Year's distributing aid to Afghan families

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— World Concern

Interview Op: Interviews available by appointment with Cory Heins in Northeastern Afghanistan via satellite phone beginning December 31, 2001.
SEATTLE - Mr. Cory Heins of Edmonds, Wash. left his home and business on December 14, 2001 to join Seattle-based relief organization World Concern's relief project in Northeastern Afghanistan. The day after he arrived, Heins helped to distribute 5,000 pairs of shoes and boots to Afghan children ages 3 to 14 in the small villages of Ghanj, Gulzur and Jarail in the Takhar Province.

"I feel that the distribution in

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 2 others
Afghanistan OCHA Situation Report No. 34

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

1. According to press reports, an agreement on the deployment of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to Afghanistan was initialed today by Afghan Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni and Britain's Major General John McColl. A formal signing ceremony will be held at a later date.
2. While the security conditions on several roads in southern Afghanistan has improved, the situation in and around Kandahar and Jalalabad is still volatile. The movement of armed elements and weaponry, bombing raids and fear of Taliban elements

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31 Dec 2001

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ICBL Landmine Update Dec 2001

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— International Campaign to Ban Landmines

The Landmine Update is the International Campaign to Ban Landmines’ quarterly newsletter. This edition is followed by a calendar of upcoming events and list of available new resources. To date, 142 countries have signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and 122 have ratified it. The most recent accession is Nigeria (27 September) and the most recent ratification is Algeria (9 October).

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31 Dec 2001

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UN press briefing in Islamabad 31 Dec 2001

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— UN Information Center, Islamabad

PRESS BRIEFING BY THE U.N. OFFICES FOR PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's briefing at the United Nations Information Centre in Islamabad by the United Nations offices for Pakistan and Afghanistan (excluding question and answer session).

** Eric Falt, Director, UN Information Centre

Good afternoon and a Happy New Year to all of you.

Over the last few days, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi has continued his intensive consultations with a wide range of people, including members of the Interim

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31 Dec 2001

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Afghans returning home despite landmines and massive destruction

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees

KABUL, Dec. 31 (UNHCR) - With security and political stability progressively returning to Afghanistan, tens of thousands of refugees and internally displaced persons are returning to their homes despite landmines and the massive destruction in many areas caused by two decades of war and drought.
In the last two months an estimated 60,000 refugees returned home from Pakistan and Iran, while over 30,000 internally displaced Afghans went back to the capital of Kabul since late November.

At the same time, several hundred civilians continue to leave the country for Pakistan every day.

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
Efforts to remove unexploded cluster "bomblets" commence in Afghanistan

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— UN News Service

Working from a list provided by coalition forces of where they used cluster bombs in Afghanistan, the United Nations is helping to remove unexploded "bomblets" released in those attacks, a spokesman for the world body said today.
Eric Falt told reporters in Islamabad that the UN Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan was working to clear the village of Denar Kheil, which "was cluster-bomb attacked by coalition forces last month and is now heavily contaminated by unexploded BLU 97 bomblets."

The onset of winter is complicating efforts

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
Afghans making do with primitive telecom equipment

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— Frontier Post

Updated on 12/31/2001 10:33:30 AM

F.P. Report

PESHAWAR: The war-stricken Afghanistan uses the most primitive communication facilities for making local and overseas phone calls, a statement released by Afghan government Telecommunication Ministery said.

Despite all the inflicted damage, the ministry has been affected with the minimum damage, since Taleban needed to make local and overseas calls, report said.

Most of the telecommunication facilities in Afghanistan have been destroyed in the course of 23 years of war while

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
Food supply in Afghanistan now sufficient to avert famine: report

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— Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (AFP) - Massive deliveries of wheat to Afghanistan over the past few weeks have averted a major famine, the Washington Post reported Monday, citing international and US relief authorities.

Aid officials said they believe the overall food supply in Afghanistan now is sufficient, and conditions are stable enough, to deliver food throughout most of the country.

"There will be no famine in Afghanistan this winter," Catherine Bertini, executive director of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) told the daily.

At the height of the US bombing campaign

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: "We were born from this ground and we are not leaving"

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— Mercy Corps

Surveying the Needs of the Families That Stayed in Kandahar
By Scott Heidler, Mercy Corps

KANDAHAR CITY, Afghanistan - This week the markets and bazaars of Kandahar are open and there appears to be a feeling of hope. The dusty streets are congested with motorized rickshaws, pick-up trucks and old Russian made four-wheelers. Video stores and music shops have even opened, businesses illegal under Taliban rule.

Kandahar City is a six-hour drive from Quetta, Pakistan with the last two hours on a dirt road that would be almost

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 1 other
CWS helps to meet emergency shelter and food needs of uprooted Afghans

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— Church World Service

CWS is providing emergency shelter and food to thousands of families displaced by drought and war in Afghanistan--so far, some 9,000 Family Shelter Kits to some 63,000 uprooted Afghans in central and northern Afghanistan, and in camps in Pakistan. CWS is also providing food parcels--beans, rice, wheat, cooking oil, sugar, and tea--to families.
A CWS-supported quilt-making project near Quetta,

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
Afghan peacekeeping deal initialled

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— Agence France-Presse

KABUL, Dec 31 (AFP) - A final agreement on the deployment of foreign peacekeepers in Afghanistan has been initialled, a British embassy source said Monday.

Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni and Britain's Major General John McColl approved the agreement on the deployment of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops, he said.

"It was initialled about an hour ago," the source said at 5:00 pm (1230 GMT), adding that the formal signing ceremony will be held at a later date.

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping deal to be signed Monday

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— Agence France-Presse

KABUL, Dec 31 (AFP) - A final agreement on the deployment of foreign peacekeepers in Afghanistan will be initialled later Monday, an Afghan official said.

"Last night we would have signed the agreement but it did not happen because of two articles in this agreement," said General Deen Mohammad Jurhat, an interior ministry official responsible for public security.

"Today they (the British delegation) will come to the interior ministry and will sign it," he told AFP, adding the deal would be signed by Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni and

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31 Dec 2001

Afghanistan
1,200 Afghan women clamor for work

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— World Vision

HERAT, AFGHANISTAN - More than 1,200 Afghan women pushed and jostled their ways into a job recruitment area last week, hoping to be one of the 250 selected to assist World Vision in preparing for a massive feeding program.
"These women haven't been able to work since the Taliban regime came to power five years ago," says Al Dwyer, Afghanistan program manager for World Vision. "We were flooded by a sea of blue burqas after we announced we'd hire workers to register families for the blanket feeding program."

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Central Asia Region - Complex emergency fact sheet #40 (FY02)

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Afghanistan + 7 others
ICBL Landmine Update Dec 2001

Afghanistan + 1 other
UN press briefing in Islamabad 31 Dec 2001

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Afghans returning home despite landmines and massive destruction

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CWS helps to meet emergency shelter and food needs of uprooted Afghans