AFGHANISTAN.

After the fall of Taliban, Afghanistan struggles to recover from decades of droughts, earthquakes, and war. In the capital, foreign aid helps rebuild lives. In the countryside, where tribal warloads and poverty are there, help and hope are difficult to bring back. Since the drought began many Afghan farmers had missed two, even three, harvests, unable to plant their wheat on the nearly ten million acres of rain-fed lands that constitute more than half Afghanistan's cultivable area. Afghans must rely on thousands of foreign soldiers and aid workers trying to keep the peace and carry out the international community's recovery plan for their country.