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Afghan children watch the arrival of visitors at a refugee camp in Faizabad in Afghanistan October 24, 2000. The World Food Programme (WFP) estimates there are now about 10,000 families -- some 60,000 people -- displaced across the area of northern Afghanistan that is outside Taleban control. REUTERS
Afghan schoolgirls wearing the traditional burqa veil leave their school, one of only two girl schools in Faizabad, in Afghanistan October 23, 2000. President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who rules just five percent of Afghanistan, said on Monday the war against the Taleban movement that has captured the rest of the country would continue indefinitely. REUTERS
Afghan refugees arrive in Faizabad from
the front line city of Taloqan where fighting between the Taleban and the
government forces goes on, October 23, 2000. REUTERS
Fighters from Afghanistan's
northern opposition dig trenches in Takhar province, northern
Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000. The Taliban religious army
rules 95 percent of Afghanistan, with the remaining 5 percent
controlled by the anti-Taliban opposition, led by ousted President
Burhanuddin Rabbani. Fighting has raged in northern Afghanistan in
recent weeks as Taliban soldiers have swept through opposition
territories. (AP Photo)
A refugee camp near the border with Tajikistan in Takhar province, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000. (AP Photo)
An Afghan refugee, wearing
an all-enveloping burqa, leaves her finger print instead of a
signature as she cannot write, to receive humanitarian aid donated by
a French charity organization in a refugee camp near the border with
Tajikistan in Takhar province, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct.
4, 2000. Russian
Foreign MinisterIgor Ivanov warned that the fighting in Afghanistan
would lead to a mass exodus of up to hundreds of thousands of
refugees to impoverished, unstable Tajikistan.
(AP Photo)
Afghan refugees in a
refugee camp near the border with Tajikistan in Takhar province,
northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000. (AP Photo)
A woman begs with her child
at a roadside in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2000.
Afghanistan, devastated by 21 years of civil war, is one of the
world's poorest countries. On Monday, Oct. 16, 2000, the U.N. Food
and Agriculture Organization reported that Somalia, Afghanistan and
Haiti rank as the hungriest countries in the world.
(AP Photo)
Children line up Tuesday,
Oct. 17, 2000, in front of a bakery, in Kabul, Afghanistan, that is
funded by the World Food Program to provide bread at a subsidized
rate. (AP Photo)
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