KABUL (SW): Ongoing violence and insecurity have forced over 90,000 more families in the past nine months to leave their homes and seek shelter in relatively safe places across the country.
Fazil Ahmad Azimi, the deputy minister at the Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation (MRR), told a presser today that only 33 % of these internally displaced persons (IDP) have returned to their homes and efforts to help the reaming IDPs return to their homes are underway.
In the meantime, officials at the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), have noted that so far as many as 794 civilians have lost their lives due to the ragging conflict and it has left over 1,000 others wounded this year so far.
According to officials at the NDMA, as many as 296 schools, 47 health centers, 72 mosques, 6,394 residential houses, 15,000 shops and 12 government buildings have been damaged by war in 11 provinces of the country.
This comes while UN’s 2016 report on IDPs suggests that over 500,000 people have been displaced since the onset of 2016 as a result of conflict and insecurity.
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