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Date: 15 Mar 2010
Source: Reuters - AlertNet

Date: 22 Feb 2010
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Source: IRIN The number of those displaced by a major anti-Taliban military operation in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, has more than doubled over the past four days, according to the provincial authorities.

KABUL Monday, February 15, 2010 (IRIN) - The recent Salang pass avalanche disaster in northern Afghanistan in which 175 people were killed and dozens injured is prompting questions about the extent to which it could have been avoided or mitigated.

Date: 18 Jan 2010
Source: UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

Source: IRIN The number of Afghan refugees who returned home from Pakistan and Iran in 2009 has dropped to the lowest level since 2002, according to the government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Date: 22 Dec 2009
Source: Norwegian Refugee Council

Date: 15 Dec 2009
Source: UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

Source: IRIN Up to 2,000 families have been forced out of their homes in Nawzad District in the southern Afghan province of Helmand following clashes between Taliban insurgents and government forces over the past week, according to the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS).

Date: 09 Nov 2009
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Source: IRIN Dozens of families from the Kaldar and Shortepa districts of Balkh Province, in northern Afghanistan, have been displaced from their homes after the Amu River burst its banks, provincial officials said.

Source: UNHCR Author Khaled Hosseini wraps up a visit to his native Afghanistan by highlighting the need for peace to ensure the safe and sustainable return of the forcibly displaced.

Source: UNHCR UNHCR and its partners set up a temporary camp to provide shelter and aid to hundreds of refugee returnees in a desolate region of northern Afghanistan.

Source: IRIN Thousands of people who lost their houses in January-May flooding in different parts of Afghanistan need help to repair or rebuild their homes, or find new ones, before winter.

KANDAHAR Sunday, June 21, 2009 (IRIN) - Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas in the north and northwest of the country because of worsening insecurity and lack of aid at the camp.

KABUL Thursday, June 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Azizullah Ahmadi told IRIN in Kabul how his son Majid, aged 25, paid US$10,000 to a smuggler to take him to a European country where he wanted to start a better life. But his son drowned in the Mediterranean before reaching Greece in 2008.

KABUL Tuesday, May 19, 2009 (IRIN) - Heavy rain and flash floods have caused extensive damage to agricultural land and livestock losses across Afghanistan, leaving hundreds of rural families in need of assistance, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL).

FARAH Thursday, May 14, 2009 (IRIN) - In 2008 Taliban insurgents infiltrated the village in the western province of Farah in which Mahmood and his extended family were living - with dire consequences: Mahmood’s father and uncle were killed in the subsequent hostilities and their house destroyed.

KABUL Thursday, May 07, 2009 (IRIN) - Local aid workers have called for urgent replenishment of relief stocks in several provinces severely affected by floods and landslides over the past month.

JALALABAD Sunday, April 19, 2009 (IRIN) - Hundreds of earthquake-affected people in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan, are in urgent need of shelter and drinking water, aid workers and local residents say. More food and better essential health services are also required.