Exclusive-Donors expected to back $280 million transfer for Afghanistan

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By Arshad Mohammed, Jonathan Landay and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donors including the United States are expected to allow the transfer of $280 million from a frozen trust fund to two aid agencies to help Afghanistan weather its humanitarian crisis, five sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there had been no objections so far to the transfer to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), which is administered by the World Bank. Any of the 31 ARTF donors, of which the…

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