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		mazar-i sharif, june 1, irna -- the northern afghan province of samangan was mopped up of the remnants of the taliban on saturday following the heavy defeats suffered by the militia as a result of the mass uprising in the northern areas.
		samangan province lies between balkh, bamian, baghlan and kunduz provinces, and it connects mazar-i sharif to the northeastern provinces.
		ahvaz, khuzestan province, june 1, irna -- iran and bangladesh are to sign a contract for mutual cooperation in area of fishery, the deputy minister for fisheries and livestock mohammad ershad al-haq said on sunday.
	www.salamiran.org /Media/IRNA/970601.html (5231 words)

	Wolesi Jirga&Provincial Council Elections 2005 Afghanistan
		Besmillah Besmil S/O Rohullah was born in Sheendand District of Herat Province.
		Mohammad Nzari S/O Eshan Qul was born in Jawzjan Province in 1961.
		Abdul Hakim Murad was born in Aybak of Samangan Province in 1960.
	www.jemb.org /eng/composition.html (1639 words)

	Samangan Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Samangan (Persian: سمنگان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
		Its capital Samangan is known for its ancient ruins including notably the Takht e Rustam.
		Nowadays people call the province Samangan, but the capital town of the province is Aybak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samangan_province (149 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Five-year-old Salahuddin, from Samangan province has caught pneumonia and is hovering between life and death in a hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan.
		He is one of the thousands of children who have fallen gravely ill because of the usually cold weather here and heavy snowfall, which has cut off the north and central western regions from the rest of the country.
		The province, the center of which is located some 300 kilometers east of Herat City, already faced food shortages from a drought earlier in the year.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=27546 (828 words)

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		This is said to be 60 miles south of Mazart-i-Sharif, in Samangan Province, so it would actually be southeast.
		It was the scene of heavy fighting in 1999 between the UF and the Taliban and may now be in a pocket held by the Northern Alliance.
		The town of Samangan is on the road to Kabul from Mazar-i-Sharif.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /news/usattack10-18.htm (774 words)

	Afghan quake toll rises to 210 -DAWN - Top Stories; March 5, 2002
		ISLAMABAD, March 4: At least 150 people have been killed in Afghanistan’s northern Samangan province by landslides caused by Sunday’s earthquake, raising the death toll to 210, according to an Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) report on Monday.
		Two helicopters flew experts from the WFP office in the Samangan capital of Mazar-i-Sharif to the affected villages.
		Samangan is 250 kilometres west of the Hindu Kush mountain range which was the epicentre of the earthquake.
	www.dawn.com /2002/03/05/top13.htm (270 words)

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		The produce of almond has showed good increase in the northern Samangan province this year as compared with the yesteryear, but the farmers are worried about unavailability of adequate market for the fruit.
		However, the farmers and traders of almond in the province are complaining of the poor market for their precious produce.
		Haji Zia, another farmer, said almond of Samangan was the best in the country and its produce had increased as compared with the yesteryear, but the prices were low.
	www.freshplaza.com /2006/11jul/2_af_almond.htm (288 words)

	In Brief
		Last week, WFP reported another security incident in Samangan province, where 40 tonnes of wheat were seized by armed soldiers.
		The local authorities have now established that the attack was the result of a misunderstanding as the soldiers had been expecting their own food convoy.
		Samangan authorities have assured WFP that they will make arrangements to return an equivalent amount of food.
	www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_brief/afghanistan21_01.html (420 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Afghan quake toll rises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Two villages in the northern Samangan province were among the worst hit, according to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP).
		Khaled Mansour, a WFP spokesman in Islamabad, said the tremors had led to landslides in the Takhdi Rustum area of Samangan.
		"We have received information from the governor of Samangan province that two villages were hit by the earthquake," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1853304.stm (337 words)

	Ex-Governor Elected to Afghan Parliament
		Mawlawi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, who was the Taliban's governor of Bamiyan province when the fifth-century Buddha statues were blown up with dynamite and artillery in March 2001, was chosen to represent the neighboring province of Samangan, according to results posted by the U.N.-Afghan election organizers.
		Samangan province also is home to some artifacts, including Buddhist stupas and the remains of a 1,000-year-old monastery.
		In the latest bloodshed, Kandahar's governor said U.S.-led coalition troops opened fire at police in the province's Maywand district late Monday after spotting the officers firing their weapons into the air and mistaking them for Taliban rebels.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article10660.htm (624 words)

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		Flooding caused by heavy rains in the Khuram Wa Sarbagh district of the province destroyed 30 houses and damaged another 76 last week.
		It also destroyed 750 hectares of farmland in the province, according to officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD).
		The worst-affected area was the northeastern province of Badakhshan where floods killed at least 40 people and left up to 1,000 homes destroyed in 65 villages.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=52977&SelectRegion=Asia&... (448 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		An alliance of opposition groups claimed to have captured a key district of Balkh province and to have killed tens of Taliban militia fighters.
		Dostam also claimed that forces loyal to the opposition had captured the Safid pass near Dara-e-Souf in neighboring Samangan province.
		A senior Taliban official confirmed the advance of the opposition, but said the center of Zaare was still divided between the warring sides.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0109/25/eng4.htm (792 words)

	Afghanistan
		The two famous statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan[?] province were destroyed by the Taliban as symbols of another religion.
		In March 3 and 25 2002, a series of earthquakes struck Afghanistan, with a loss of thousands of homes and over 1800 lives.
		The earthquakes occurred at Samangan Province (March 3) and Baghlan Province (March 25).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/af/Afghan.html (1707 words)

	FAO Representation in Afghanistan
		Kabul, 13 November 2003 — With a visit to Samangan province on 8 and 9 November, the heads of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) wished to share their strengthened co-operation with the Government of Afghanistan.
		In Afghanistan, FAO and WFP have already been working together on food security for several years by targeting the most vulnerable people through projects geared towards the rehabilitation of agriculture Collaboration is expanding in the area on school gardening and reforestation, as well as integrated programming with other UN agencies.
		The visit to Samangan followed workshops that were conducted by FAO throughout the country to define the needs of the different provincial departments as well as the role of the government in rural development.
	www.fao.org /world/afghanistan/news5_03_en.htm (345 words)

	Afghan Taleban prepares for new offensive US still biggest arms provider despite slump in demand Blast at new Texas ...
		The Taleban was sending reinforcements to northern Samangan province in a bid to capture the Dara-i-Suf district, Usttad Atta Mohammad, a spokesman for the northern-based opposition alliance, said by telephone from Afghanistan's opposition-controlled territory.
		They scored early victories in Parwan and Kapisa provinces, but failed to hold onto newly won territory and were pushed back by forces loyal to opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood within a week.
		Parwan and Kapisa provinces are dominated by the ethnic Tajik population.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=13603 (1546 words)

	ATTACK on AMERICA - U.S. Strikes Back
		Following the capture of Mazar-e-Sharif, an opposition commander, Mohammed Mohaqik, said anti-Taliban forces quickly seized three northern provincial capitals —; Shibarghan in Jozjan province; Aybak in Samangan province; and Maimana in Faryab province.
		Abdul Hanan Hemat, chief of the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency, said "there are no troops under siege and that the bulk of the Taliban forces had withdrawn to Samangan province east of Mazar-e-Sharif.
		Abil said opposition soldiers had also taken Taliban mountaintop positions overlooking Taloqan, the capital of northeast Takhar province and the headquarters of the anti-Taliban alliance until it fell to Taliban troops in September 2000.
	multimedia.belointeractive.com /attack/strike/1110claim.html (848 words)

	Opposition claims 13 Villages captured -DAWN - International; October 8, 2001
		Opposition spokesmen said hundreds of Taliban soldiers had surrendered and 13 villages had been captured in northern Samangan province, bordering Uzbekistan, and western Ghor province during heavy fighting overnight and Sunday.
		The city sits on a road linking the western provinces to the north and centre of the country.
		In Samangan, opposition spokesman Mohammad Ashraf Nadeem said the Taliban lost two villages after a failed counter-attack designed to divert pressure from the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
	www.dawn.com /2001/10/08/int7.htm (476 words)

	CNN.com - Afghan government estimates 150 deaths from quake - March 4, 2002
		KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Local authorities are reporting scores of deaths in Samangan Province in northern Afghanistan, where a powerful weekend earthquake triggered a landslide and caused widespread damage.
		According to World Food Programme spokesman Khaled Mansour, who said he had spoken by telephone with officials in the region, two villages in the remote province of Samangan were badly hit by the quake.
		The WFP was trying to send helicopters normally used for food drops to the region to assess the situation.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/04/afghan.quake.2340 (387 words)

	Earthquake Shakes Hindu Kush, Claims 150 Lives
		In northern Afghanistan, the quake has left 150 people dead and caused a landslide that is blocking the main river which provides water to an entire province.
		At the bottom of a canyon in Samanghan province, the quake triggered a landslide when a 200 meters (656 foot) high mountain cliff crumbled, covering the river bed with soil, rock and trees, blocking the flow of the river.
		The international humanitarian organization GOAL http://www.goal.ie/ is sending two engineers to the Samangan province.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/mar2002/2002-03-05-02.asp (662 words)

	April 26, 2002: USAID Fact Sheet on Humanitarian Aid for Afghanistan
		In Faryab, Takhar, and Badakshan provinces, eggs have not yet begun to hatch due to the higher altitude, and in Jowzjan Province, egg beds were destroyed this year by sandstorms.
		UNHCR reported that 39.0 percent of the returnees from northern Pakistan are going back to Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, 38.7 percent to Kabul Province, 5.7 percent to Parwan Province in central Afghanistan, 3.5 percent to Jowzjan Province in the north, 2.9 percent to Laghman Province in the east, and 9.2 percent to other provinces.
		Some 21 percent of the Afghan refugees from southern Pakistan are returning to Kunduz Province in the north, 20 percent to Kabul, and 16 percent to Kandahar Province in the south.
	www.us-mission.ch /press2002/0426USAIDAFGHAN.htm (3583 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Afghanistan’s opposition forces today said they had captured northern Samangan province bordering Tajikistan after the Taliban militia withdrew almost without a fight.
		Mohammad Ashraf Nadeem, spokesman for the Northern Alliance commander Atta Mohammad, said resistance troops were chasing the Taliban into Baghlan province to the southeast.
		Samangan’s fall, if confirmed and sustained, would be the second damaging setback for the Taliban in 24 hours after the loss last night of the strategic northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif in Balkh province.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011111/main3.htm (467 words)

	alicubi journal :: bandits steal from afghan poor
		According to the World Food Programme (WFP), armed ethnic Uzbeks stole up to 40 mt of food aid intended for the predominantly Pashtun, drought-affected population in the Qaiser area of northern Faryab province on Thursday after beating up aid agency staff and smashing vehicles.
		In another incident last week, gunmen took away some 40 mt of wheat in the northern Samangan province.
		The two provinces are largely controlled by forces loyal to General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the deputy defense minister in the Afghan interim administration.
	www.alicubi.com /news/irin_14.html (280 words)

	Former governor who oversaw destruction of ancient Buddhas is elected to Afghan parliament
		On Sept. 18, he stood as an election candidate in neighboring Samangan province and won, according to results on the Web site of the U.N.-Afghan election organizers.
		Samangan province is also home to some artifacts, including Buddhist stupas and the remains of a 1,000-year-old monastery, and Mohammadi said, "I will do everything I can to protect them."
		In the latest bloodshed to wrack the country, U.S.-led coalition troops opened fire at police in Kandahar province's Maywand district late Monday after spotting the officers firing their weapons into the air and mistaking them for Taliban rebels, Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid said.
	www.freenewmexican.com /news/33838.html (701 words)

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		Evolution of the outbreak and WHO action During the past week, WHO sent three missions from Mazar to Samangan, Sari-pul and Sheberghan provinces for the assessment of cholera situation, conducting health education campaigns and distribution of medical supplies.
		WHO facilitated orientation meetings about cholera in Sheberghan and Saripul provinces which were attended by the representative of the municipalities of Sheberghan and Saripul, RRD, Education, Vice and Virtue, Haj and Auqaf, Culture and Information and MOPH Depts.
		By 14th July the situation in Khulm and Feroz Nakhchir of Samangan province was under control and cases are drastically decreased to normal seasonal diarrhea.
	www.who.int /disasters/repo/7269.doc (1140 words)

	UNAMA - Press Briefings - 24 April 2006
		UNAMA has been coordinating relief efforts with the Afghan Red Crescent Society to provide essential non-food items to people affected by floods in the Khuram Wa Sarbagh district of Samangan province, in the north of the country.
		Embroidery and tailoring training are among the skills that people there are going to benefit from, helping them to provide incomes for their families.
		Tests continue to be conducted on bird samples at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation laboratory in Italy.
	www.unama-afg.org /news/_pb/_english/2006/_april/06apr24.htm (2167 words)

	NNii. Pressroom; News Briefs
		Afghanistan's Samangan Province began the first round of a polio immunization campaign with Gov. Sayd Mohammad Eqbal Monib delivering the first oral polio vaccine drops to a child in the province.
		The campaign is targeting 103,000 children in the province, with 590 volunteers working to help achieve that goal.
		There may be variations in treatment that your health care provider may recommend based on individual facts and circumstances.
	www.immunizationinfo.org /pressroom/newsbriefs_detail.cfv?id=9720 (105 words)

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