Saturday, October 22, 2005

International Development: Azerbaijanis face food aid crisis

The United Nations World Food Programme, has warned that without immediate help from international donors, food assistance to 130,000 Azerbaijanis displaced by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Armenia could come to a complete halt in just three weeks time.

The U.N. News Centre reports that since 1994, WFP has been helping hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis displaced by the armed conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. More than 600,000 Azerbaijanis fled the region to other parts of Azerbaijan and are now spread across western, central and eastern parts of the country with extremely limited opportunities for employment.

Just one of the many conflicts that isn't fashionable enough for the mass media to devote too much time to.