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March 5, 2004
Overview
Turkish worker gunned down in southern Afghanistan as US-led coalition expands securityToday (Friday, March 5), unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan’s southeastern Zabul province gunneddown two people, including a Turkish engineer and an Afghan security guard. A second Turkishworker and another Afghan security guard were also abducted in the incident, which took place in theShah Joy district of Zabul. According to reports, a car carrying two Turkish nationals working on a US-funded Kabul-Kandahar highway resurfacing project and two Afghan security guards were stoppedand ambushed around midday by gunmen as they approached Shah Joy. The provincial governor,
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Kheyal Mohammad Husseini, told Reuters that ousted Taliban or elements loyal to renegade warlordGulbuddin Hekmatyar were behind the attacks. Security across Afghanistan has been a majorconcern in recent months for the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai and the internationalcommunity, ahead of this year’s planned nationwide general elections in June. The US-led coalitionforces are expanding Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in more regions across the country. Anew civil-military PRT was set up this week in Afghanistan’s troubled southeastern province ofGhazni. The team will improve security to some 1.86 million people across the province. Two morePRTs are planned for the southeastern provinces of Khost and Zabul over the coming weeks.
UN steps up efforts to train Afghan police forceThe United Nations has reportedly stepped up efforts to train some 20,000 Afghan police officersahead of this year’s nationwide general elections in June. Speaking at a press briefing on Sunday(February 29) Manoel de Almeida e Silva, spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission inAfghanistan (UNAMA), said a series of expanded intensive courses aimed at accelerating new policerecruitment and training in the country’s north and southeast have been launched. He added thatstarting this week, some 750 policemen from the southern and eastern provinces of Ghazni, MaidanWardak, Logar, Paktika, Khost and Paktia would undergo a three-week training course at GardezPolice Academy to upgrade their skills. Some 1,000 policemen from the northern provinces of Balkh,Sar-i-Pul, Faryab, Jowzjan and Samangan are expected to go through the same training program atthe Mazar Police Academy in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The US-led and funded trainingprogram complements the German-led Afghan police training for new recruits at the Kabul PoliceAcademy. The UN hopes to have enough trained Afghan police in place across the country to helpmaintain law and order during nationwide polls scheduled for June this year.
UNHCR resumes Afghan repatriationsThe office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resumed its voluntaryAfghan refugee repatriation campaign from Pakistan on Tuesday (March 2). Jack Redden,spokesman for UNHCR, told the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) inPakistan’s capital Islamabad on Monday (March 1), “The repatriation will resume tomorrow,” addingthat all repatriation centers across Pakistan in Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta will resumethe repatriation program. Redden said the UNHCR plans to repatriate some 400,000 Afghanrefugees in Pakistan to their homes during 2004. A UNHCR official told reporters last Friday(February 27) that the decision to resume repatriation operations comes following assurances by thegovernments of Afghanistan and Pakistan and amid additional security measures taken by theagency. In addition to refugee repatriations from Pakistan, UNHCR has also resumed repatriations forinternally displaced persons (IDPs) in the southern province of Kandahar to the western province ofHerat. The UN refugee agency suspended its repatriation program last November (2003) amiddeteriorating security conditions and the murder of a female international staffer.
Britain increases its aid package for AfghanistanBritain is boosting its aid package to Afghanistan by an additional 300 million British pounds (US$552million). The new aid package announced on Monday (March 1) by the Department for InternationalDevelopment (DfID) will bring Britain’s contribution to war-wracked Afghanistan from an alreadypledged GBP 200 million (US$ 368 million) to at least GBP 500 million (US$ 920 million) over a fiveyear period. Britain’s International Development Secretary Hilary Benn said in a statement thatalthough a lot has been accomplished in Afghanistan over the last two years, there were stillchallenges ahead that need to be addressed. She said the new aid commitment would helpAfghanistan to address those challenges. According to the new aid package, at least GBP 75 million(US$140 million) would be spent for reconstruction each year.
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Supply Routes Map for Humanitarian Aid
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MovementTotal returns in the last 18 months are 2.5 million with 610,000 in 2003 including 340,000 from Pakistan
and 270,000 from Iran. Initially 1.5 million to 2 million were expected. UNHCR restarted assisted returnsfrom Pakistan this week after a several month hiatus. 400,000 are expected to return from Pakistan thisyear. In January and February less than 4,000 were assisted to return; they were all from Iran andincluded about 700 earthquake survivors from Bam. The 2003 peaks were 92,000 in June and 78,000 inJuly. Some camps in Pakistan will be closed or consolidated in 2004.
Emphasis in 2003 was on repatriation from old camps and cities in Pakistan to rural areas inAfghanistan. 70% of returnees from Pakistan were from cities and 30% from camps. Over a third returned toKabul, another 10% went to other central provinces, and just over 20% returned to each of the north and east.The Southern region received 6% and the Western region 4%. About one million refugees remain in Iran and1.2 million in Pakistan. Remaining in Pakistan are 200,000 in cities, nearly 1 million in old camps and 150,000in the post-September 2001 camps.
In 2002 over 2.3 million Afghan refugees returned with 2 million assisted by UNHCR. UNHCRrepatriated 1.53 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan, including 125,000 from Baluchistan and 1.4 million fromthe North West Frontier Province. 82% were from urban areas; only 3% were from new camps. 265,000refugees were assisted in returning from Iran; and 10,000 refugees from the central Asian republics. This is inaddition
UNHCR starting 2004 IDP returns; There are 184,000 recorded, active IDPs, with the actual total ofperhaps some 300,000. Active IDP numbers are 144,000 in the South, 21,000 in the West, 2,800 in the Center,5,500 in the East and Southeast, and 41,000 in the North and Northeast. UNHCR assisted 60,000 IDPs toreturn in 2003. to the estimated 280,000 who voluntarily repatriated from Pakistan and Iran.
WFP received nearly 4,700 metric tons (MT) of food aid from outside Afghanistan and distributed2,400 MT, leaving stocks of 17,500 MT.
Routes for Humanitarian Aid and Refugees Country Supply Routes
FromSupply/Return Routes To Comments
Mashhad Dogharun, Herat, Badghis &Ghor
Major refugee repatriation route;Iran
Zabol Nimruz Refugee repatriation route;Peshawar Khyber Pass Torkham
Jalalabad, Kabul, Bamiyan &refugee camps in NWFP,Pakistan
Major refugee repatriation route;Pakistan
Quetta Refugee camps in Baluchistan,Pakistan & Kandahar andHerat
Significant refugee repatriation route
Tajikistan Nizhny Pyandzh Sherkhan, Kunduz, Northernregion, & Kabul
Engineering studies for bridge overPyandzh River; Some constraints onSalang tunnel traffic
Kyrgyzstan Osh Ishkashim, Faizabad, & NE WFP no longer needs routeTurkmenabat,Kushka Herat, Badghis & Ghor UNHCR no long needs route
Turkmenistan
Turkmenabat, Kerki Andkhoy, Mazar-e-Sharif, &Northern Region UNHCR no longer needs route
Uzbekistan Termez Mazar-e-Sharif and North Friendship Bridge for rail and road
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Afghanistan Relief Efforts: United Nations Coordination Regions
Central Region
Location BamiyanCoordination
Population 2,800 active IDPs in Central and East CentralIDP Movement
Food WFP; preparations for winter complete
Health ICRC, IMC, MSF; malnutrition high
NFIs -Shelter IOM, UNICEF, UNOCHA, & OXFAMWater & Sanitation
Security New Zealand PRT in Bamiyan
Comments
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East Central RegionSecurity: Five Afghans working for a development NGO killed in Kapisa province;
Location Kabul
Coordination UNHCR
Population 2,800 active IDPs in Central and East Central
IDP Movement UN; currently few returning home from Kabul
Food WFP, IRC, Action Contre la Faim
Health CARITAS, MSF, IFRC, IRC, ICRC
Russian relief center and hospital; improved ambulance service
Non-Food Items - Shelter UNHCR, ACTED, MSF, IRC, ICRC, IOM; housing being built for squatters
Security
Water & Sanitation ICRC; Wells, pumps, and clean water considerably improved; chlorination ofwells on-going
Comments
Eastern RegionSecurity: UN missions suspended in Nuristan province; Coalition operations continue; US PRTin Gardez; New US PRT in Ghazni province; Coalition says it will establish more PRTs in east andsouth to improve security and humanitarian support; UN reports security concerns hinder voterregistration for June elections;
Location Jalalabad
Coordination UNHCR
Population 5,500 active IDPs in EastIDP Movement
Food WFP, IRC
Health UNICEF, MSF, IMC, WHO; ICRC
Non-Food Items - Shelter CWS, UNICEF
Security US PRT in Jalalabad
Water & Sanitation CARITAS; ICRC
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Eastern Region IDP Camps
Location Hesarshahi (12 kmeast of Jalalabad)
Sar Shahi
Type IDP IDP
Coordination International IslamicRelief Organization(ISRO)
Capacity
Population 9,000 remaining 15,000Movement IDPs UNHCR assisted
15,000 return homeFoodHealthNon-Food Items(NFIs) - ShelterSecurityWater & SanitationComments
Northeastern Region
Location FaizabadOrganization
Population 11,000 active IDPs in North and Northeast
Movement IDPs 117,000 returned spontaneously in Northeasternregion
Food OXFAM, UNICEF, WFP, World Concern
Preparations for winter underway
Health WHO, Merlin, UNICEF, MSF; ICRC
Non-Food Items(NFIs) -Shelter
UNICEF, ACTED, Refugees Int’l, Mercy Corps
Security CalmWater & Sanitation
Comments 5 new bridges linking Northeast to Tajikistan
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Northern RegionSecurity: UN missions suspended to parts of Balk province; US PRT in Parwan; Conflictbetween local commanders;
Location KunduzCoordination
Population 11,000 active IDPs in North and Northeast; 60,000IDPs from North elsewhere in country;
Movement IDPs IOM targeting 45,000 IDPs to identify those interestedin voluntary assisted return home starting 31 March
Food ACF, FOCUS, OXFAM, IOM, Save the Children;
Health WHO, MSF
Non-Food Items (NFIs) –Shelter
Convoys from Mazar-e-Sharif, Kabul, and Tajikistan
IOM, ACTED, Mercy Corps
Security UN PRT in KunduzWater & Sanitation
Comments Aid and relief supplies from North, South, and West
Northern Region IDP Camps (Kunduz)
Location Bagh-e-Sherkat AmirabadType IDP IDPCoordination IOM IOM
Camp Capacity 22,000
Population Less than 5,000 between thetwo camps
Less than 5,000 between thetwo camps
Movement IDPs Largely stopped Largely stopped
Food WFP WFP, ACTED, Focus
HealthNon-Food Items(NFIs) - Shelter IOM
SecurityWater &Sanitation
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Location Mazar-e-SharifCoordination UNHCR
Population 11,000 active IDPs in North and Northeast; 60,000 IDPsfrom North elsewhere in country;
Movement IDPs IOM moving some IDPs home
Food WFP; preparations for winter underway
Health WHO; ICRC.
Jordanian field hospital
Non-Food Items(NFIs) - Shelter
IRC, IOM, UNICEF, Action Contre la Faim; FAO
Security British PRT in Mazar-e-Sharif; Disarmament anddemobilization of competing warlord corps underway;
Water & Sanitation ICRCComments
Southern RegionSouthern region has 145,000 active IDPs;Security: Turkish engineer and Afghan soldier killed on highway in Zabul province; Missionsto Uruzgan province suspended; Logistics hub in Quetta, Pakistan, which supplies south,closed due to security concerns; Coalition says it will establish more PRTs in east and south toimprove security and support humanitarian activities; UN reports security concerns hinder voterregistration for June elections;
Location KandaharCoordination UNHCR
Population 145,000 active IDPs in SouthMovement of IDPs
Food International staff present and operating
Mercy Corps in southern Kandahar Province
Health WHO, ICRC, CARITAS, Mercy Corps; UNICEF;
NFIs - Shelter UNHCR, Mercy Corps
Security US PRT in Kandahar;
Water & Sanitation
Comments
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Southern Region IDP Camps (Kandahar)
Location KandaharType IDP
Capacity 90,000 in 39 camps in Panjwai district
Population Survey of IDPs in the Southern Region to beconducted later this month
Movement IDPs Plan to relocate 55,000 IDPs from SpinBoldak, no-man’s land to camps, andKandahar camps to Zhare Dasht; Relocationfrom no-man’s land complete; selectedrelocations from Kandahar city to ZhareDasht underway
FoodHealthNFIs - ShelterSecurity Security concerns: crime, banditry, and
general insecurityWater & SanitationComments
Southern Region IDP camps south of Kandahar
Location Zhare Dasht (South of Kandhar – 6 camps)Type IDP Camp
Coordination Int’l Save our Souls
Camp Capacity 30,000; expandable to 60,000
Population 36,000
Movement IDP Initial movement of several hundred to homes in west
Food WFP
Health MSF; outbreak of diphtheria among under-18
NFIs - ShelterSecurity A concern of potential occupants
Water & Sanitation UNICEF wells
Comments New camps designed to attract IDPs from Spin Boldakand no-man’s land near Chaman
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Eight Southern Region camps in Panjwai and Maiwand west of Kandahar for 30,000 nomadic KuchisLocation Mandozai (60 kn from
Kandahar)Marghar Morsham
Type IDP Camp IDP Camp IDP Camp
Coordination Cordaid Cordaid Cordaid
Camp Capacity
Population 1,700 4,500 16,000Movement IDPRefugees in no-man’s land
Food Caritas Caritas Caritas
Health Caritas Caritas CaritasNFIs - ShelterSecurityWater & SanitationComments
Southern Region IDP Camps (Spin Boldak--Near Afghan-Pakistan Border Chaman Area)About 20,000 IDPs in the Spin Boldak area; plans to move remaining IDPs to 6 camps near Kandahar inprocess; 7,000 assisted in moving to Zhare Dasht since Oct 2003; 8,000 – 10,000 assisted in returning home;
Location Al Rashid (SpinBoldak)
Ben Rashid Maktum(Spin Boldak)
Rabita Alam el Islam(Spin Boldak)
Type IDP Camp IDP Camp IDP Camp
Coordination UNCHR UNHCR UNHCRCamp CapacityPopulation 1,100Movement IDPFood WFP WFP Distribution interrupted in
mid-May
Health UNICEF and MSF UNICEF and MSF UNICEF and MSF
NFIs - ShelterSecurity
Water & Sanitation Trucks and water tanks Trucks and water tanks UNHCR supplying limitedquantities
Comments New camp New camp New camp
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Location Spin Boldak Spin Boldak Wesh
Type IDP Camp IDP Camp IDP Camp
Coordination International IslamicRelief Organization
NGO from United ArabEmirates
International IslamicRelief Organization
Camp Capacity 6,000
Population 6,000Movement IDPRefugees in no-man’s landFood WFP WFP WFP
Health UNICEF and MSF UNICEF and MSF UNICEF and MSFNFIs - ShelterSecurity
Water & Sanitation Trucks and water tanks Trucks and water tanks Trucks and water tanks
Comments New camp New camp New camp
Western Region20,500 active IDPsSecurity: UN missions to Farah province suspended;
Location
Herat Province
Coordination UNHCR; ICMC
Population 70,000 or less in 5 remaining camps down from 200,000to 360,000 depending on estimates
Movement IDPs 74,000 returned from Herat to Badghis province
Food WFP, IRC, CARITAS, UNICEF, World Vision, IOM, ActionContre la Faim
Health WHO, MSF, MDM, Order of Malta, CHA, IbniSina, HRS;ICRC; very high maternal mortality
Non-Food Items (NFIs)– Shelter
UNHCR, Iranian Red Crescent, UNICEF, IOM,Blankets and fuel being distributed;Ockenden Int’l, MSF, IMC
Security US PRT in Herat
Water & Sanitation UNICEFComments
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Western Region IDP CampsLocation Mir Daud (25 km
west of Herat)Maslakh (20 km west ofHerat)
Shaydayee (18 km east ofHeart)
Type IDP Camp IDP camp IDP camp
Coordination ICMC ICMC ICMC
Camp Capacity 100,000
Population New arrivals fromBadghis andGhor
11,000 16,000
Movement IDPs IOM assisted IDPs return homein North-West for 2003 total of23,000
IOM assisted 23,000 IDPs toreturn home from Mashlakhand Shaydayee in 2003; MSFreports Shaydayee to close—remaining IDPs to be shiftedto Maslakh
Food WFP; food-for-work programvice distribution
WFP; general fooddistribution to end April; Shiftto food-for-work program vicedistribution
Health WHO, IMC, MSF, MDM, HRS,CHA, IbniSina; ICRC
(NFIs) - Shelter IOM, UNHCR distributingadditional tarps and blankets
UNICEF, UNHCR
SecurityWater & Sanitation UNICEFComments
Western Region IDP Camps (cont.)Location Minaret 1 & 2 Rawza Herat City
Type IDP camp IDP camp IDP camp
Coordination ICMC ICMCCamp Capacity
Population Less than 2,000 Less than 500 remain Less than 5,000
Movement IDPs
Food MDM doing foodsupplements
Health
Non-Food Items(NFIs) - Shelter
UNHCR and NGOproviding tents
Security
Water & Sanitation UNICEF UNICEFComments Officially closed
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Refugee Locations in PakistanUNHCR has been caring for more than 260,000 refugees in Pakistan, including 137,000 people in nine campsand one transit area in Baluchistan Province and 110,000 in seven camps in Northwest Frontier Province. WFPplans to provide food aid for 288,000 refugees in the new camps in 2003. Numbers are decreasing slowly withreturn of refugees; refugee return rates have slowed to several thousand per week from their peak of over400,000 in May. UNHCR reactivates assistance to returning refugees this week. Logistics hub in Quettaclosed because of security concerns.
Baluchistan ProvinceLocation Baluchistan ProvinceCoordination
Population 137,000 people in 9 camps and one transit area
Movement of Refugees Afghans in no-man’s land relocated to ZhareDasht and Mohamed Khele; Plans to close othercamps in vicinity of Chaman over time
Food WFP
Health Medicins du Monde; MSF
NFIs – Shelter Emergency distribution of blanketsSecurity
Water & Sanitation IFRC, Medicins du Monde; Action Contre la FaimComments
Refugee Camps in Baluchistan, PakistanLocation Killi Faizo (2km from Chaman) Mohamed Khele 1 & 2
(85 km southwest ofQuetta)
Roghani (new) (16 kmfrom Chaman)
Type Transit Center Refugee Camp Refugee Camp
Coordination UNHCR UNHCR/Rotary Intl. UNHCR
Camp Capacity 80,000 17,000 - full
Population 0 37,000 Pashtuns 17,000
No-man’s land Closed 8,000 refugees havebeen relocated from no-man’s land
Refugee MovementNumerous familiesstarting to move to SpinBoldak in Afghanistan;UNHCR plans to closecamp in March 2004
Food WFP WFP, CRS WFP
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Health UNICEF; MSF UNICEF, MSF UNICEF,MSFNon-Food Items(NFIs) - Shelter UNICEF; CRSSecurityWater & Sanitation IFRC, MDM IFRC, MDM, Oxfam
Refugee Camps in Baluchistan, Pakistan (cont.)Location Landi Karez (5 km
from Roghani)Tor Tangi (20 kmfrom Chaman)
Lejay Karez (75km from Quetta) -new
Latifabad (10 km fromMohammad Kheil)
Type Refugee Camp Refugee Camp Refugee Camp Refugee Camp
Coordination UNHCR UAE Red Crescent UNHCR UNHCR
Camp Capacity 10,000 10,000 8,600
Population 16,500 10,000 5,700 6,350 ethnic minorities
Refugee Movement From Quetta
Food WFP WFP WFP
Health AMDANFIs - ShelterSecurity
Water & Sanitation IFRC, MDM, Oxfam IFRC, MDM IFRC, MDM IFRC
North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan
Location North West Frontier ProvinceCoordination
Population 110,000
Refugee Movement 1,404,000 refugees have returned; someold camps beginning to empty Shalmancamp occupants to be graduallyconsolidated or returned to Afghanistan
Food WFPHealthNon-Food Items (NFIs) - ShelterSecurity Under control after attack on WHO vehicleWater & Sanitation
Comments
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Refugee Camps in NWFP, Pakistan37,600 in Shamshatoo; 63,000 among six remaining camps
Location New Shamshatoo (60km southwest ofPeshawar)
Kotkai (Bajur Agency120 Km northwest ofPeshawar)
Barkali (Bajur Agency)
Type Refugee Camp Refugee Camp Refugee Camp
Coordination UNHCR
Camp Capacity 75,000 20,000
Population 37,600 16,000
Refugee MovementRefugees returning toAfghanistan;
Food WFP WFP WFP
Health
NFI - Shelter CRS UNICEFSecurity
Water & Sanitation UNICEF
Comments Primarily for Pashtuns
Location Old Bagzai(Kurram Agency)
Shalman 1 (KhyberAgency - new)
Bassu (KurramAgency)
Asgharo (KurramAgency
Type Refugee Camp Refugee Camp Refugee Camp Refugee Camp
Coordination UNHCR IRC/Rotary Intl. UNHCR UNHCR
Camp Capacity 10,000 20,000 501 12,200
Population 2,000 10,000RefugeeMovement
Half to return; halfto be consolidatedat Kotkai in March
Food WFP WFP WFP WFPHealthNFIs - Shelter IRC IRC
SecurityWater & San CRS Water truck route
dispute with locals
Comments Established campfor Tajiks, Uzbeks,and Turkmens
CLOSED for newarrivals; UNHCR toclose in March;
For Shiite refugees,mostly Tajik andHazaras
Relocated refugeesfrom Jalozai andurban Peshawar