UN set to relocate Afghanistan staff after suicide attack
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The United Nations says it will relocate more than half its staff in Afghanistan in the wake of last week's suicide bombing of a guesthouse which killed five UN staff.
The UN insists it remains committed to its work in the country... but it's senior officials have complained of being increasingly treated as a soft target, and on Monday almost all work in northwest Afghanistan was put on hold for the foreseeable future.
The announcement means hundreds of UN staffers will be moved to safer places... in many cases outside the country.
Presenter: Robert McClean
Speaker: Aleem Siddique, UN spokesman Afghanistan; Kai Eide, UN special envoy to Afghanistan
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