{"id":13980,"date":"2023-04-04T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2023-04-04T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:24:13","slug":"cut-in-humanitarian-aid-would-aggravate-the-situation-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/04\/cut-in-humanitarian-aid-would-aggravate-the-situation-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut in humanitarian aid would aggravate the situation, warn analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"

KABUL (SW) – Analysts fear drastic cuts in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan would further aggravate the lingering crisis in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had said a while ago that $ 4.6 are needed to help the needy in Afghanistan this year.\u00a0The organization recently expressed its concern and said that it has received only 5 percent of the requested aid to help poor families in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Concerned about the decrease in aid to the poor in Afghanistan, analysts say that due to the decrease in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Afghans will face a year full of problems.<\/p>\n

Bahman Yousufi, an economic expert and university professor, told Salam Watandar that the international community has chosen to distance itself from Afghanistan due to restrictions on women in the country. “Due to the non-respect of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, countries and the international community have lost their interest in Afghanistan. In 2021, 18.4 million people needed humanitarian aid, and this number will reach 24.4 million in 2022 and 28.3 million in 2023. Out of this group, 20 million people are facing hunger and this shows that Afghanistan will have a very difficult year ahead.”<\/p>\n

OCHA has warned about the lack of 95 percent of the necessary budget for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

A number of Afghans are equally worried about the decrease in international aid to needy families and say that they are in dire need of humanitarian aid to save themselves from hunger.<\/p>\n

Tayyaba Salam, a resident of Bamiyan, told Salam Watandar: “When there is help, the problems are somehow resolved. When the aid stopps, we get worried about what to do. There is no business, we received help just recently.”<\/p>\n

In addition to all this, the spokesman of the Ministry of Economy, Abdul Rahman Habib, says that the numbers of organizations such as the United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid are not verifiable and that the Islamic Emirate is fundamentally trying to solve economic problems.<\/p>\n

He said: “We do not rely on foreign aid. Foreign aid is temporary and secondly, it cannot solve economic problems. The economy and all ministries are focused on increasing the gross domestic product to reduce poverty. The numbers published by international organizations are their own findings. Some organizations publish these numbers for their financial resources.”<\/p>\n

After the rule of the Islamic Emirate and the delay of development projects in Afghanistan, the need of Afghans for humanitarian aid and the level of poverty have increased, as at this time, more than 28 million Afghans need humanitarian aid, according to the UN.<\/p>\n

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KABUL (SW) – Analysts fear drastic cuts in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan would further aggravate the lingering crisis in the country. The United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had said a while ago that $ 4.6 are needed to help the needy in Afghanistan this year.\u00a0The organization recently expressed its concern and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,979],"tags":[12,322,727],"class_list":["post-13980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","tag-afghanistan","tag-un","tag-ocha"],"views":71,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13984,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions\/13984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}