WFP warns of cut in aid amid dwindling funds
KABUL (SW) – Officials in the Afghanistan section of the United Nations World Food Program have told Salam Watandar that they need $111 million in
KABUL (SW) – Officials in the Afghanistan section of the United Nations World Food Program have told Salam Watandar that they need $111 million in
MONITORING (SW) – The World Food Program has warned that lack of funds threaten to ‘grind to halt’ the operations of providing food to millions of needy families in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – The Director General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation office in Afghanistan, Dr Muhammad Saeed Al-Ayash, has assumed office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday 4 March 2022.
MONITORING (SW) – At least 24.4 million people in Afghanistan are in need of humanitarian assistance, which is a 30% increase from a year ago, said the International Committee of the Red Cross.
MONITORING (SW) – The west has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country, according to David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee.
MONITORING (SW) – Conflict prevention, counter-terrorism and support to Afghanistan, top the list of issues on which the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a Eurasian regional grouping comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan – should bolster their cooperation, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday.
KABUL (SW) – After months of almost no access to medical services, the World Health Organization joined a team that transported by air essential medicines for the most inaccessible communities of Darwaz Districts in Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan on 15 February.
MONITORING (SW) – Britain said on Tuesday it would co-host an international aid conference with the United Nations next month to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have spiralled since the Taliban took power last year.
KABUL (SW) – Analysts see the US President Joe Biden’s move to split Afghanistan’s state reserves as detrimental to the country’s economy and future prospects.
KABUL (SW) – The UN Children Fund (UNICEF) has warned that as the humanitarian crisis deepens in Afghanistan, the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul receives up to 8 cases each day of children suffering complications associated with severe acute malnutrition.
MONITORING (SW) – The Geneva Call aid group has announced that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has adopted a humanitarian declaration after high-level discussions in Geneva.
MONITORING (SW) – The WHO’s Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that despite some improvements in Afghanistan’s health sector, the situation in the country is still dire and acute humanitarian crisis still threatens lives.