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Article: U.N. shipments of food to northern Afghanistan hits snag.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 12, 2001
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TERMEZ, Uzbekistan _ United Nations efforts to begin shipping emergency food supplies to drought- and hunger-stricken northern Afghanistan ran into trouble Monday when a U.N. World Food Program test-run of a barge across the Amu Darya River failed.
The U.N. personnel who were expected to meet the barge on the Afghan side of the river didn't show up.
"They found (the river) to be secure and usable, however our people from Mazar-e-Sharif were not there due to security concerns," said Michael Huggins, a spokesman for the WFP. "If we don't have the security guarantees, there's no point in opening up a corridor to dump food."
The WFP plans to ship ...