Afghan refugees wait for relief from the cold weather

Musadeq Sadeq / AP

A child stands with his father as they wait to receive blankets and winter jackets from Welthungerhilfe, a German NGO, during a snow fall at a camp for internally displaced Afghans in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb, 20. 2012. More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan's coldest winter in years.

Afghanistan is experiencing unusually cold weather and heavy snowfalls which have led to at least 40 deaths.

Hopefully, the weather will improve soon.

See more photos from Afghanistan in our slideshow below.

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More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.

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