Afghan bandits hampering aid deliveries

Banditry on Afghanistan roads is making it too dangerous to deliver help to many remote areas where millions of hungry Afghans are effectively cut off, the UN World Food Programme has said.

Sixty-nine trucks loaded with wheat rumbled into Kabul yesterday, part of almost daily deliveries for the World Food Programme. At one school, the UN refugee agency handed out blankets, sweaters and charcoal to some 2,500 impoverished people.