Full Story Not long after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement on Aug. 30 explaining that the U.S. would continue to provide aid for the ...
The 2019 mines ministry report does, however, say Afghanistan holds 1.4 million tonnes of rare earth minerals, a group of 17 elements prized for their applications in consumer electronics, as well ...
Since September 2021, the return to school for all Afghan over the age of 12 have been indefinitely postponed leaving 1.1 million and young women without access to formal education. Currently, 80% of school-aged Afghan and young women – 2.5 million people are out of school. Nearly 30% of in Afghanistan have never entered …
Claim: The United States withdrawal from Afghanistan put more than $80 billion worth of equipment u2014 including 22,174 Humvees and 33 Black Hawk helicopters u2014 in the han…
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A new U.S. facility in Afghanistan offers 64,000 square feet of space for more than 1,000 military personnel. Finished last November, it cost tens of millions of dollars. It will never be used for ...
The UN's refugee agency says Iran hosts around 780,000 Afghan refugees, in addition to some 2.6 million undocumented Afghan migrants. But Iran claimed last year that the number of illegal Afghan ...
This additional funding brings U.S. support for Afghanistan to more than $1.1 billion in humanitarian assistance since August 2021, including nearly $812 million from USAID …
The U.S. recently announced more than $266 million in new humanitarian assistance to address the pressing needs of an estimated 18 million people in Afghanistan, including more than 4.8 million ...
FILE - A mother holds her malnourished boy at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told the …
The Afghan people continue to grapple with the consequences of four decades of conflict, with entrenched poverty further exacerbated by an economic crisis, frequent environmental disasters and the impact of a worsening climate crisis, and gender inequality. ... 12.4 million people have acute food insecurity 1 in 4 Afghans do not know where ...
Forced to take the drastic measures citing a "massive funding shortfall", WFP will only be able to provide emergency assistance to three million people per month across the country from October. "Amid already worrying levels of hunger and malnutrition, we are obliged to choose between the hungry and the starving, leaving millions of families scrambling for …
Donors have pledged more than $1.1 billion to help Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have spiralled since the Islamist Taliban took power, and foreign aid has dried up, raising the spectre of ...
The figure mentioned in the Facebook post – over $85 billion – appears to stem from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction's (SIGAR) July 30 quarterly …
transcript. Biden Says, 'The War in Afghanistan Is Now Over' President Biden defended his decision to end the 20-year war in Afghanistan, a day after the U.S. closed a two-week evacuation of ...
Half a billion dollars of aircraft that flew for about a year. A huge $85 million hotel that never opened, and sits in disrepair. Camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army whose fancy …
Since the events of August 2021, the World Bank has provided more than $1.7 billion in support to the Afghan people. Through Approach 1.0, the World Bank provided $280 million in funds from the Afghanistan Resilience Trust Fund (ARTF) to UNICEF and the World Food Program.This was for humanitarian gap financing to meet emergency health …
In rural areas, the severe impact of a second drought in four years continues to affect the livelihoods of 7.3 million people who rely on agriculture and livestock to survive. " …
About 80 per cent of Afghanistan's economy is informal and dominated by women. Since 2001, three million have enrolled in school and, on average, education has increased from six years to 10. "Without them, there is no way the Afghan economy and society will recover", upheld the UN chief.
An estimated 3.7 million children are out-of-school in Afghanistan – 60% of them are . The underlining reasons for low ' enrolment is insecurity and traditional norms and practices related to ' and women's role in the society. Other reasons can be explained in part by a lack of teachers, especially in rural schools.
An estimated 15.8 million people in Afghanistan are projected to experience Crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity during the November 2023 to March 2024 winter lean season, including 3.6 million people facing Emergency—IPC 4—levels of acute food insecurity, according to the most recent IPC analysis released in December.
The new government is struggling to feed the country's thirty-nine million people, and the chance that an Afghan baby will go hungry and die is the highest in twenty years. Half of the country ...
At the same time, despite the withdrawal of international forces, Afghanistan is not immune to geo-political and regional dynamics with 1.9 million Afghans having returned to the country so far in ...
Five reasons why Afghanistan remains within the top 3 countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in the International Rescue Committee's Emergency Watchlist. ... Population: 40.8 million; 28.8 million people in need of humanitarian aid; 17.2 million people facing crisis or worse levels of food insecurity;
As the humanitarian situation worsened, the United States also issued some exemptions to sanctionsand committed $308 million in aid last month — bringing the total U.S. assistance to the country ...
This additional funding brings U.S. support for Afghanistan to more than $1.1 billion in humanitarian assistance since August 2021, including nearly $812 million from USAID and nearly $320 million from the State Department. The assistance addresses the needs of vulnerable Afghans in Afghanistan and those who have fled to neighboring countries.
WFP can only support 1 million hungry people, leaving a gap of 11 million in need who do not receive emergency food assistance due to lack of funding. Additionally, 1.4 million mothers and children are no longer receiving specialized nutritious food to prevent malnutrition, while malnutrition rates remain critically high.
The Taliban-controlled back of Afghanistan said last week it had received $40 million in cash. ... "Another package of humanitarian aid worth $40 million dollars arrived in Afghanistan and was ...
David Perry, business manager of NGV Global, one of the sources for the IEA report, said that currently a new modest public greenfield site costs between $1.5 million and $2 million, while a new ...
Afghan Persian or Dari (official, lingua franca) 77%, Pashto (official) 48%, Uzbeki 11%, English 6%, Turkmani 3%, Urdu 3% ... situation was expected to deteriorate and the number of people in "Crisis" or above was likely to increase to 22.8 million, about 35% more than during the same season in 2020/21; following the developments of ...
Of the $2.8 billion transferred to Afghanistan since US withdrawal in 2021, nearly $300 million is unaccounted for [Islamabad] According to a new report from the leading US …
Published 4:26 PM PDT, September 13, 2021. GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations drummed up more than $1.2 billion in emergency pledges Monday for helping 11 million …
ISLAMABAD (AP) — About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, a nongovernmental organization said. Nearly three out of 10 Afghan children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year as the country feels the immediate impacts of floods, the long-term effects of drought, and ...
In rural areas, the severe impact of a second drought in four years continues to affect the livelihoods of 7.3 million people who rely on agriculture and livestock to survive. "Afghanistan is now among the world's worst humanitarian crises – if not the worst – and food security has all but collapsed", said the WFP chief. "This ...
In 2023, a staggering 28.3 million people – or two-thirds of Afghanistan's population - require urgent humanitarian assistance to survive. Over 17 million people face acute hunger in 2023, including 6 million people at emergency levels of food insecurity – one step away from famine.
The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, almost 20 years after being ousted by a US-led military coalition. Emboldened by the withdrawal of US troops, they now control all key cities in the ...