The US Agency for International Development has pledged US $10.4 million worth of grain to Tajikistan to help overcome the effects of drought that has gripped the impoverished former Soviet Republic, AFP reported. The WFP Country Director, Bouchan Hadj-Chikh told IRIN on Friday the US donation was part of 44,000 mt total consignment that was already “in the pipeline” and would be distributed by 31 January 2001. He added that WFP had been able to preposition winter food supplies for people in mountainous and inaccessible regions. The emergency distribution programme targeting vulnerable groups in Khatlon, the southern region bordering Afghanistan, would begin on 4 December.
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