Aid for Afghan refugees will cost £300m - Annan

The UN will need more than $500m (£339m) to save refugees if the US attacks Afghanistan, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said.

Aid may have to be dropped from aeroplanes, Annan said, since Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban has forced out foreign aid workers. He said as much as 1,500 tons of stockpiled food had disappeared since the aid workers left.