Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has pledged $10 million in humanitarian aid to help Afghan refugees in the event of a US military strike on Afghanistan, the official SPA agency reported Monday, October 2.
It said the Saudi assistance, mainly of food, medicines and clothes, is aimed at "easing the suffering of the brother Afghan people and helping the Afghan refugees." The United Nations has called on member states to come up with $584 million to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in the country.
The money would go to help some 7.5 million Afghans whose circumstances have worsened since the September 11 attacks in the United States, which have forced the United Nations to break off almost all its operations in Afghanistan. ― (AFP, Riyadh)
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