| "Afghanistan's worst drought in 30 years had now spread across the broken country and almost half its 20 million people could be affected.... Between now and June 2001 at least half of the population of Afghanistan may be affected by drought, three to four million severely and another eight to 12 million moderately," the UN said in a statement. |
They were once prosperous livestock owners. The drought has taken everything away.
RAWA photos from Herat - October 2000
Mother with her sick child in Herat.
- RAWA activists in drought-stricken villages of Herat
- Taleban blames Afghans for drought
- Drought reduces life to a torture in Afghanistan
- Afghan drought spreads, half population hit
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