KABUL (SW) – In past one month alone, the surge in violence displaced over 30,000 more civilian families in different provinces
Officials at the disaster management authority said on Thursday that the displacement has taken place in 25 out of all 34 provinces where fighting between the Taliban insurgents and the government forces have surged.
“In the past two years more than five million Afghans have been displaced by the Taliban and other terrorists, and in the past two months 32,384 more families have been displaced”, Minister of State for Disaster Management Ghulam Bahauddin Jilani said.
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He said the government has been asked to urgently provide 500 million afghanis ($ 61 million ) to meet the needs of the displaced people across the country.
As per the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there are an estimated 18.4 million people in need in Afghanistan while only $ 475 million worth of donations have been received against the humanitarian call for $ 1.3 billion to address the needs.
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