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UN refugee chief: Security worse in Afghanistan

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres says the security situation in Afghanistan has worsened in recent months and foreign staff are now unable to travel to half of the country.

 

Guterres says the agency has to rely on local staff or Afghan partner organizations to reach tens of thousands of displaced people and returning refugees it is trying to aid. He told reporters in Geneva that aid workers have become targets for violence in part because the distinction between the foreign military and humanitarian groups has been blurred. (AP)

 

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