Thousands of Afghans face cold, hungry winter as aid goes missing

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Thousands of Afghans face cold, hungry winter as aid goes missing

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-afghans-face-cold-hungry-winter-aid-goes-211439490.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tKu0DpOO7g4HLwJOIR6Lpg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-17T211439Z_1_CBREA0G1N1300_RTROPTP_2_AFGHANISTAN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Homeless men sleep on the roadside in the old part of Kabul" align="left" title="Homeless men sleep on the roadside in the old part of Kabul" border="0" /></a>By Jessica Donati and Mirwais Harooni HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of homeless Afghans are huddling on the sides of freezing roads this winter with little shelter and nothing to eat, not far from warehouses stuffed with food. The government's inability to help - through mismanagement, corruption, or factors beyond its control - threatens the future of a united Afghanistan after an April presidential election and the withdrawal of foreign combat troops by the end of this year. We are poor, we cannot afford this,&quot; said Ghollam Hassan, part of a cluster of people who have been living for weeks by the side of a road in Herat, one of Afghanistan's few relatively prosperous provinces near the border with Iran. So thousands of desperate people have abandoned their homes in dangerous provinces and flocked to Herat, many of them with just a blanket for shelter from Afghanistan's harsh winter.</p><br clear="all"/>

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