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Red Cross Makes Drastic Cuts to Operations in Afghanistan

09/10/2017 GMT

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ICRC offices in Maimana and Kunduz will be closed down

ICRC offices in Maimana and Kunduz will be closed down.

The head of ICRC in Afghanistan says offices in Maimana and Kunduz will be closed while operations in Mazar-i-Sharif will be scaled down. The move comes after seven ICRC staff were killed in militant attacks in Afghanistan this year.
Also, children die as Rohingya boat capsizes, Turkey and US scale back visa services and South Africa to send six black rhinos to Chad. 

(Photo:  Patients are evacuated from a Red Cross hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, on 11 September 2017, after a physiotherapist was shot dead.  Credit:  European Photopress Agency)

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