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26 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 1 other
Key river in Iran, Afghanistan flowing again after drought: IRNA

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— Agence France-Presse
TEHRAN, Dec 26 (AFP) - The water is flowing again in the Hirmand River between Iran and Afghanistan after it had dried up during the region's worst drought in 30 years, Iran's state IRNA news agency said Tuesday.

The 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) river had been completely dry for nearly a year before the water began flowing again overnight Monday, prompting people to sacrifice lamb and cattle to God in thanks, it said.

Last week the Zayandeh-Rud river, which cuts through the historic central city of Isfahan, also began flowing again after being dry for some four months.

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21 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Pakistan: UNHCR seeks US $44.5 million for southwest Asia

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— IRIN
ISLAMABAD, 21 December (IRIN) - In an effort to draw attention to the plight of displaced people in southwest Asia (SWA), the majority of whom are from Afghanistan, UNHCR representative for Pakistan Montserrat Feixas Vihe told IRIN on Thursday: "Afghanistan and the Afghan refugees need the attention and support of the world if there is to be a peaceful solution to the conflict."
As part of the agency's global appeal for 2001, in a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday, UNHCR spokesman Yusuf Hassan said that Afghans today constituted the overwhelming majority
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15 Dec 2000

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran - Drought OCHA Situation Report No. 5

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Ref. OCHA/GVA - 2000/0227
OCHA Situation Report No. 5
Iran - Drought
15 December 2000

SITUATION

1. Iran is facing the harsh consequences of two consecutive years of drought. A meagre 140 mm of rain fell on the country this year; a figure well below the annual average of 260 mm. This has been the worst drought since 1964 and has affected about 37 million people, in other words over 50 % of the country's population, in 18 of the 28 provinces.

2. The UN Inter-Agency fact-finding mission deployed under OCHA's leadership in July and August, and composed of representatives

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11 Dec 2000

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Drought-hit Iran imports 5.6 million tonnes of wheat

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— Agence France-Presse
TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - Drought-hit Iran imported 5.6 million tonnes of wheat this year after its own production fell drastically, the state news agency IRNA reported Monday, quoting the head of the national cereals board.

Mohammad Memarzadeh said the imports from Argentina, Australia, Canada, France and Kazakhstan were to make up a shortfall in domestic output, which amounted to only 4.5 million tonnes.

In 1998 Iran's wheat harvest totalled a record 13 million tonnes, almost self-sufficiency, but the last two years have seen the worst drought in three decades.

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08 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 4 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 8 December

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— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: EU grants US $7 million for drought victims
The European Union (EU) in Islamabad on Thursday announced it had granted the equivalent of US $7 million extra in humanitarian aid to victims of drought in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, EU sources told IRIN on Friday. The commitment by the EU's office for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) follows an earlier grant this year of almost US $5 million in response to the immediate needs caused by the drought. Activities to be undertaken include the provision of tents and emergency
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06 Dec 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 6 December

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— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: WFP says resources almost exhausted
World Food Programme (WFP) country director Gerard van Dijk said on Tuesday that resources for its regular life-saving distributions to drought-affected Afghanistan would be exhausted in less than four months unless further pledges were made available immediately. "We have 80,000 mt of wheat for projects we are currently committed to, and in November we distributed 28,000 mt. If we maintain the same wheat distribution in the coming months, our resources will be exhausted by the middle of March," van Dijk told IRIN.
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05 Dec 2000

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UN Conference calls for additional efforts to address desertification and drought worldwide

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— UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Bonn, 5 December 2000 - "We are ready to see if progress has been achieved in combating desertification worldwide", said today Mr. Hama Arba Diallo, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), few days before the opening of the fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD (COP-4), from 11-22 December in Bonn, Germany.
About 2,000 delegates from over 170 countries are expected to arrive in Bonn to attend the Conference, including Heads of State and of Government, ministers, representatives of intergovernmental
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17 Nov 2000

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran, UNESCO agree to establish centre for water management

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— Agence France-Presse
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - UNESCO has agreed to help Iran establish a water management centre after the Islamic republic's worst drought in decades, the official IRNA news agency said.

It cited Deputy Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian late Thursday saying the government had signed a deal for a "regional centre for urban water management" with the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

"Given Iran's climatic conditions and a serious shortage of water resources, the country (will) face a water

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16 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 2 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 16 November

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— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: Russia supports broad-based government
Long-accused by the Taliban movement of aiding the Northern Alliance's military struggle against it, Russia on Wednesday announced its support for proposed Afghan peace talks to end two decades of war in the country. "We are for settlement in Afghanistan. We want the two sides to sit down at the table and begin negotiations ... Only a broad-based government in Afghanistan can settle this situation," said Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Eduard Shevchenko at a press conference in Islamabad.
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14 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 14 November

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— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: Annan urges Pakistan and Iran to cooperate for peace
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Sunday called upon Iran and Pakistan to work more closely to bring about a lasting peace in Afghanistan.

Speaking on Sunday at the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Doha, Qatar where he reiterated the UN's commitment to finding a negotiated and peaceful solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, Annan underscored that peace would not return to the country without the support of its neighbours. He appealed to Afghanistan's

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10 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 5 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 10 November

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— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: Pakistan bans entry of Afghan refugees
The Government of Pakistan in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) announced on Thursday an immediate ban on the entry of new Afghan refugees into the province. The UNHCR spokesman in Peshawar, Roy Herrmann, told IRIN on Friday: "We are surprised by this news, and the UNHCR is currently meeting with Pakistani authorities at various levels in an effort to reverse the decision."

News sources reported that the Pakistani government had become alarmed at the recent influx of refugees into Pakistan

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06 Nov 2000

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran Takes Measures to Ward off Water Crisis: Minister

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— Xinhua
TEHRAN (Nov. 6) XINHUA - Iran has been taking positive measures to ward off a possible water crisis in two decades, the Iranian energy minister said here on Monday.

Iran's per capita water resource stood at 7,000 cubic meters 44 years ago, Habibollah Bitaraf said.

But as the population grows rapidly to 63 million, the figure has now fallen to 1,300 cubic meters, he told an inaugural ceremony of an international water and sewage exhibition in Tehran.

He warned that Iran could face a water crisis in 21 years. The minister's remarks reminded people of the severe

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06 Nov 2000

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 5/00 - Iran, Islamic Republic of

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
In the last dekad of October light rain over the north west and locally heavy rain over the Caspian coast was received, which may have benefited wheat planting which should now be underway.
Successive droughts in 1999 and this year have seriously affected various sectors with major dams and hydro-electric facilities running dry. It is estimated that rainfall this year was around 140mm, well below an average of 260 mm. The drought was the worst since 1964 and affected an estimated 37 million people or over 50 percent of
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02 Nov 2000

Afghanistan + 6 others
Drought Bites Harder in West Asia

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— Reuters - AlertNet
By James Poole

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Drought and falling water tables through Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan and northwestern India are threatening crops, livestock and rural populations, analysts said on Thursday.

In some areas of Iran and Afghanistan, the drought is the worst in 30 years, destroying millions of tons of grain and hundreds of thousands of livestock.

In the former Soviet Central Asian republics and the Caucasus, severe drought has raised the specter of hunger for many impoverished people and several countries have appealed for food aid.

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30 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 44 others
2000 Estimated Food Needs and Shortfalls for WFP Operations and Projects: Updated 30 Oct 2000

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— World Food Programme


Overview
The World Food Programme wishes to thank donors for their continued generosity. This year donors have contributed over US $ 1.3 billion, and WFP has used these resources to mobilise over 3.1 million tons of food aid distributed to needy people.

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23 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 23 October (2)

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— IRIN
AFGHANISTAN: UN religious intolerance report cites Taliban
A United Nations expert monitoring religious intolerance worldwide last week strongly criticised what it called the "ever-growing scourge" of religious extremism epitomised by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the case of Afghanistan deserved particular mention.

Using religion as a political tool, he said the Taliban had "taken an entire society hostage". . The greatest burden had fallen on Afghan women, who were "afflicted by

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18 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 5 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 18 October

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— IRIN
IRAN: UNHCR announces Afghan repatriation figures
Public information spokesman for UNHCR in Tehran, Mohammad Nouri, told IRIN on Wednesday that up to 14 October, the total number of returning Afghans under the joint repatriation programme with the Iranian government had reached 108,685.

Parallel to the UNHCR organised repatriation convoys, the Iranian interior ministry was facilitating the spontaneous return of Afghans. "To date, a total of 23,961 Afghan individuals have spontaneously returned to their homeland," Nouri said. He emphasised

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12 Oct 2000

Afghanistan + 3 others
Central Asia: IRIN News Briefs, 12 October

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— IRIN
IRAN: Afghan refugee programme "proceeding positively"
The UNHCR and Government of Iran voluntary repatriation and protection screening programme for Afghan refugees was continuing and "proceeding positively," a UNHCR public information assistant in Islamabad, Abdul Qayeum Karim, told IRIN on Thursday. During the period 1-7 October, 3,954 Afghans voluntarily repatriated from Iran to Afghanistan, bringing the number of returnees to 104,267 since the programme got underway in April. "Our aim was to repatriate 100,000 refugees
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10 Oct 2000

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran asks for international aid for use in natural disaster recovery

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— Deutsche Presse Agentur
Teheran (dpa) - Iran's interior minister on Tuesday called for more international and regional aid to help reduce damages caused by natural disasters, the official news agency IRNA reported Wednesday.

''Each year, 1,300 are killed as the result of different natural disasters in Iran, and over 1,000 billion rials (333 million dollars) in damage is inflicted upon various aspects of the national economy,'' Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lari said.

Addressing the third Asian Seismology Conference in Teheran, he said that 31 different kinds of natural disasters

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09 Oct 2000

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iran's drought causes 3.4 billion dollars in damages: government

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— Agence France-Presse
TEHRAN, Oct 9 (AFP) - The drought ravaging Iran has caused 3.4 billion dollars of damage, an interior ministry official said Monday.

"The principal losses have been in agriculture and livestock," said Ahmed Khoram, the head of Iran's natural disasters commission.

"Some of the oil revenue surplus (about 123 billion dollars) has been devoted to compensating those affected," he said, as cited by the official news agency IRNA.

Government authorities said in July that the drought had swept 25 of Iran's 28 provinces, and an estimated 800,000 animals have died.

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