Category Archives: Afghanistan

Polio Cases Increase Thanks Largely to Indian Outbreak

May 21, 2003 – 12:00 am

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in April that cases of polio worldwide increased four-fold in 2002 due largely to an outbreak of the disease in India.

In 2001 there were only 483 confirmed cases of polio which shot up to 1,920 confirmed cases in polio after an outbreak in the Indian states […]

By Brian Carnell | Also posted in Nigeria, Niger, Somalia, Egypt, Pakistan, Polio, India | Comments (0)

Afghanistan and World Food Program At Odds

June 19, 2001 – 12:00 am

Until recently the World Food Program was feeding 300,000 people in Afghanistan with subsidized bread. Then the Taliban stepped in and demanded that the WFP stop using women to collect information about the needs of other women in Kabul. The WFP refused, and had to stop selling the cheap bread after it was unable to […]

By Brian Carnell | Also posted in World Food Program | Comments (0)