{"id":7752,"date":"2022-01-05T10:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T10:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2022-01-05T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T10:52:33","slug":"harsh-winter-exacerbating-the-severe-conditions-faced-by-many-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/01\/harsh-winter-exacerbating-the-severe-conditions-faced-by-many-afghans\/","title":{"rendered":"Harsh winter exacerbating the severe conditions faced by many Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned that the harsh winter is exacerbating the severe conditions that many Afghans are facing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heavy snowfall and rain have affected a number of areas in the past 24 hours, with snow disrupting flights to and from Kabul Airport. Further snow and low temperatures are forecast in the coming days, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, humanitarian partners have been racing against time to deliver aid and supplies, in line with the commitment to scale up operations. During December, partners reached 7 million people with relief food supplies across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to OCHA, the provision of winterization support, including cash and non-food items, is also under way in various parts of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Donors have provided US$1.5 billion for the two humanitarian appeals for Afghanistan in 2021. This includes $776 million, or 128 per cent, of the US$606 million required for the\u00a0Flash Appeal\u00a0and $730 million, or 84 per cent, of the $869 million sought in the\u00a0Humanitarian Response Plan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned that the harsh winter is exacerbating the severe conditions that many Afghans are facing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,200,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,322,512,727],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-un","tag-winter","tag-ocha"],"views":492,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752","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=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}