Germany currently has about 4,200 troops in Afghanistan, positioned mainly in the relatively-peaceful northern part of the country and focused on training missions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"The challenge right now is that our emergency pre-positioned supplies were running quite low because the response in West Java was in progress still and that quake had just happened a few weeks ago,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The U.N.World Food Program says it needs $500,000 to bring 250 metric tons of food to Birao next month because supplies that were pre-positioned earlier in the year are not sufficient to meet greater demand.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27