31.   The WFP monitors the distribution of aid supplied by many countries and other foreign relief agencies in the North.

32.   Thousands of Taliban soldiers have been amassing outside the capital for weeks and warning residents and foreign relief workers to leave the city before a major assault.

33.   U.N. and foreign relief agency workers also were expected to leave for the same reason.

34.   While official foreign relief is growing, shortages of food, water and shelter are driving many storm victims to the point of desperation.

35.   Foreign relief workers say health conditions in the camp are deteriorating, but the refugees remain hesitant to leave.

36.   He invited foreign relief agencies and the world community to assist the Somali people to rebuild their war-shattered country.

37.   In a separate statement in Kabul, Purves recalled that last week a foreign female relief worker was repeatedly raped and her Afghan driver severely beaten.

38.   Brahimi has already complained to Karzai about attacks on foreign relief workers in the north, warning that aid programs were at risk of suspension unless security improved.

39.   But he called for stricter guidelines on operating procedures for the deployment of foreign relief teams in an emergency.

40.   China on Tuesday appealed for foreign relief aid but signalled it was reluctant to admit foreign experts to the quake area.