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| Afghanistan |
| ICRC doubles aid estimate |
| 2001-10-04 |
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have been forced to double their estimates of what is needed to cope with the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, with up to 500,000 Afghan refugees being targeted. Red Cross officials in Pakistan say the focus will be on getting tents, blankets and health care equipment into Afghanistan as soon as possible ahead of the start of winter next month. As well, aid workers say there will be an effort to provide water and sanitation facilities in some of the dozens of new refugee camps being built in western Pakistan in readiness for the estimated one million people expected to cross the border in the event of a war in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |