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<title><![CDATA[AFGHANISTAN: Middle aged and mentally ill in Kabul]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IRIN: IRIN: He sleeps in derelict outbuildings, eats dirty leftovers, wears tattered clothes and spends his days on the streets. He knows neither his name, nor his age, nor any relatives. People give him a wide berth despite - or because of - his frantic begging gestures. He is middle-aged and mentally ill in Kabul city. At least one in 10 of the over 700 street beggars arrested in Kabul in the past 10 months have mental disorders of some kind, according to officials in the government&#8217;s anti-begging commission.]]></description>
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