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UN relocates Afghanistan staff to secure housing

Source: Canada.com
Kabul : Afghanistan | about 1 month ago  
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Afghanistan — The Taliban scored another propaganda victory Thursday when the UN decided to relocate more than half of its foreign workers from Afghanistan because it had become too dangerous for them to continue to work there. The announcement of "short-term relocations" of about 600 of the UN's...
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    The United Nations has announced it will evacuate more than half its international staff based in Afghanistan after a deadly Taliban attack on a guesthouse for UN workers. ... uncertainty over whether or not the Taliban have their fighters and the
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    The temporary relocation of staff out of Afghanistan is likely to take three to four weeks, the UN spokesman in Kabul said. The move will not affect key UN work such as aid delivery as this is done by local Afghan staff, he added. ...
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