October 10, 2000
A three-day cease-fire is called to allow UN medical officers to continue providing polio vaccinations for children displaced by the fighting. A massive
campaign to immunize approximately 4.5 million children in
Afghanistan, one of only 30 countries where the
disease still exists, began in early June.
Late October 2000
A ban on the farming of
opium poppies, from which
heroin is derived, is introduced by the
Taliban authorities.
