{"id":5619,"date":"2021-08-02T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:47:16","slug":"spike-in-fighting-displaced-at-least-50000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/spike-in-fighting-displaced-at-least-50000-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike in fighting displaces 50,000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASSADABAD (SW) \u2013 Spike in fighting in Kunar has displaced at least 50,000 people, said officials on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the local officials in Kunar, over the past two months, 50,000 people have been displaced and the number of displaced people is increasing as a result of heavy fighting in a number of districts in the province. \u201cThese people have been displaced from Nari and Ghaziabad districts,&#8221; said Wasefiullah Wasefi, deputy governor of Kunar.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, about 2,000 displaced families have been assisted so far.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/24\/fierce-clashes-underway-in-logar-faryab-uruzgan-baghlan-and-kunar\/\">Fierce clashes underway in Logar, Faryab, Uruzgan, Baghlan and Kunar<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/24\/taliban-forced-dozens-of-families-in-kunar-to-flee-homes\/\">Taliban forces dozens of families in Kunar to flee homes<\/a> <\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Kunar&#8217;s deputy governor said people are being displaced from Taliban-controlled areas because they are being harassed by members of this group. Wasefi added that efforts are underway to return the displaced to Ghaziabad and Nari districts.<\/p>\n<p>The displaced people living in school buildings and other public facilities have been complaining about their poor living conditions and have demanded serious government attention.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has denied the Kunar deputy governor&#8217;s claim that people fled because of Taliban harassment.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASSADABAD (SW) \u2013 Spike in fighting in Kunar has displaced at least 50,000 people, said officials on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,17,200,5,8,4,6],"tags":[564,12,13],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-peace","category-security_","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","tag-kunar","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban"],"views":563,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","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=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}