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AFGHANISTAN: Ill-prepared for cold snap
AlertNet News - Friday, February 24, 2012, 6:28
At least 150 people in Afghanistan have died in the past month after some of the coldest weather for years. The deaths – mainly of those without adequate food, housing or heating in Kabul and the northern province of Badakhshan – have prompted some to ask how this can happen given that the country has received billions of dollars of aid since the Taliban regime fell in 2002.
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