Afghanistan back from brink of widespread starvation

Wednesday, January 30, 2002

KABUL, Afghanistan -- International relief efforts have helped pull Afghanistan back from the brink of widespread famine, but many people are still subsisting on insufficient diets, the head of the World Food Program said Tuesday.

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