Foreign aid workers affirm that the government tries to spread its resources as widely as possible.
She is expected to ask for more visas for foreign aid workers as the Syrian Arab Red Crescent struggles to distribute food.
One reason is the exposure to foreign aid workers in the capital.
More than 60 foreign aid workers left Pakistan in 2012, largely because of security concerns or the refusal of the authorities to renew their visas.
The Beach restaurant, a favourite for secular types, including foreign aid workers, was closed for three days after police nabbed a woman smoking a water-pipe.
That is terrible for Nigeria, less so for Europe and North America: AQIM often targets foreign aid workers and contractors (usually to raise ransom money), but it has shown little interest in targets outside north-west Africa.
The capital of Sierra Leone may be less brutalised than some other parts of the country, but its people are nonetheless physically and psychologically scarred by years of warfare, and this week they had to watch as foreign aid workers were pulled out.
With 17, 000 or so local and foreign aid-workers in Darfur trying to help the victims, the relief operation is still the largest of its kind in the world.
Forced to flee Abyei, they now live in a sprawl of hastily erected huts about 40km south, at Agok, where they survive largely on help from foreign aid-workers.
He said that international aid workers often suspected foreign militants of being terrorists while other Muslims often suspected the aid workers of being spies.
Such accounts remain unverified given Syrian government control of access to the region by foreign reporters and independent aid workers.
But economic reconstruction is hardly possible if local business people, foreign investors and international aid workers do not feel secure in their persons and property.
For the first time since the Gulf war, American troops are in a foreign land, not guarding an embassy, protecting aid workers or trying to keep a peace, but fighting an enemy.
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