{"id":31063,"date":"2026-10-19T06:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=31063"},"modified":"2026-10-19T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:50:44","slug":"over-1-2-million-people-returned-to-afghanistan-in-nine-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/10\/over-1-2-million-people-returned-to-afghanistan-in-nine-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1.2 million people returned to Afghanistan in nine months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan has said that more than 1.2 million people returned to Afghanistan from the beginning of 2026 until the end of September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Monday (Oct. 19), the agency said that more than 500,000 of the returnees had come from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>UNHCR said that helping returnees rebuild sustainable livelihoods is essential to supporting their reintegration into society.<\/p>\n<p>The UN agency reaffirmed its support for returnees, saying that its microfinance programme helps returnees and internally displaced Afghans access capital and develop small businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan has said that more than 1.2 million people returned to Afghanistan from the beginning of 2026 until the end of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,31,6],"tags":[12,2303,80,319,1811],"class_list":["post-31063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-migration","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-helping","tag-returnees","tag-unhcr","tag-united-nations"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31063","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31066,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31063\/revisions\/31066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}