U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
CENTRAL ASIA TASK FORCE
CENTRAL ASIA REGION - Complex Emergency
Fact Sheet #16 (FY02)    October 29 2001


Note: this Fact Sheet updates previously released Central Asia Region Fact
Sheets and Situation Reports.

Numbers Affected

- According to a joint assessment by the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) and Pakistani authorities, the total influx of Afghan
refugees into Pakistan since September 11, 2001 is estimated at 100,000 to
110,000.


Afghanistan

- According to local press reports, the first winter rains are predicted
within three days and could cause snowfall in the higher elevations of
Afghanistan.

- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) compound in Kabul
was bombed for a second time on October 26 and three of the four
warehouses caught fire.  The buildings contained food and blankets that
were to be distributed to 55,000 disabled and other vulnerable people.

- The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
reported that 6,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) are in a camp 20
kilometers inside Afghanistan near Spin-Boldak.  An NGO from the United
Arab Emirates is assisting the IDPs.

- The offices of international humanitarian agencies in Afghanistan
continue to experience looting and armed occupation.  According to UNOCHA,
the UNHCR office in Kandahar, which houses relief supplies, was looted.
UNOCHA also reported that the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) office in
Mazar-e Sharif is occupied by armed individuals, and local authorities are
using two WFP vehicles.  ICRC offices in Mazar-e Sharif were taken over by
armed individuals on October 23.


Pakistan

- UNHCR reports that 1,350 people are staying at the temporary staging
site, Killi Faizo, in Pakistan close to the Chaman border crossing.


Iran

- The current camp population at Makaki, located in a Taliban-controlled
area on the Afghan side of the Iran-Afghanistan border, rose to 7,800,
according to UNHCR.  The Iranian Red Crescent Society (ICRS) is no longer
registering new arrivals since the camp is approaching its limit of 1,000
tents.

- The Mile 46 camp in a Northern Alliance-controlled area of Afghanistan
near the Iran border currently has 568 people.



U.S. Government Activities
New Actions

- As of October 29, the Department of Defense (DOD) had airdropped 959,640
Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs) valued at $4,126,452 into Afghanistan.


Disaster Declarations & Background

- On October 4, 2001, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs
Christina B. Rocca redeclared a complex humanitarian disaster for
Afghanistan for FY 2002.

- On October 10, 2001, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires James A. Boughner declared a
disaster for Tajikistan due to drought.


FY 2001 USG Assistance to Afghanistan

Total USAID/OFDA        $12,599,441
Total USAID/FFP $31,200,000
Total USAID/DG  $310,000
Total USDA      $99,800,000
Total State/PRM $29,828,659
Total State/HDP $2,800,000
Total State/INL $1,500,000
Total CDC       $569,525

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance FY 2001
$178,607,625



FY 2002 USG Assistance to Afghanistan

Total USAID/OFDA        $28,923,766
Total USAID/FFP         $38,555,000
Total State/PRM $10,000,000
Total DOD       $4,126,452

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance FY 2002
$81,605,218

TOTAL USG Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan FY 2001/2002
$260,212,843


USG Assistance to Tajikistan

Total USG Assistance to Tajikistan FY 2001
$67,210,000

Total USAID/OFDA Assistance to Tajikistan FY 2002
$998,180


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