Millions of Afghans cold and hungry amid funding shortages • FRANCE 24 English

Here in the poverty-stricken caral suburbs thousands form a queue to collect essential Aid most our attorneys from Pakistan after its government ordered the expulsion of illegal immigrants last year they’ve made a long journey and have waited hours in the freezing cold if we adults don’t have enough to

Eat for several days that’s okay but we cook rice all Soup for the children we can’t let our children die of hunger we don’t have any wood so we fill cans with hot water to keep ourselves warm we’ve recently arrived from Pakistan and couldn’t bring anything with us the blankets and all these

Things were given to us by my brother but these rurys are just among millions of others in Afghanistan who are facing months of hunger in a bitter winter more than half of the Afghan population today relies on humanitarian Aid and a staggering 98% of the population lack enough food to eat the

Country has also enoyed dured Decades of conflict that have destroyed livelihoods and displaced millions and bore the brunt of climate changed induced hardships and more frequent natural disasters the onset of winter has only made things worse with most families lacking the means to buy fuel or firewood to keep warm all this against

The backdrop of an economic crisis since the Taliban returned to power in 20121 humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan has plummeted as countless people are unable to access ESS work and without income opportunities today Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world

Millions of people are facing months of hunger and bitter cold in Afghanistan this winter amid aid shortages. Once abundant, funding to Afghanistan has plummeted since the Taliban returned to power in mid-2021. Thousands of people are still sleeping in tents in Herat province after successive earthquakes in October destroyed or rendered uninhabitable 31,000 homes. Meanwhile around half a million Afghans fleeing deportation from Pakistan have returned in recent months to a country where unemployment is rife.
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14 comments

  3. The US should be hold responsible and pay up! Could they waste billions on the war, they can spend millions helping them…

  4. U.N. chief appeals for release of money to save Afghan lives
    Some $9.5 billion in Afghan central bank reserves remain blocked outside the country, mainly in the United States.

  8. Afghanistan has been at war either internally or with other nations for as l9ng as I can remember. At the turn of the 20th century they were at war with the British Empire and India. After becoming an Islamic state they've done nothing but wage war. They have no one but themselves to blame. Stop the fighting. Create peace. Learn to prosper. I guard that the leaders of the Taliban don't go hungry.

  9. And here we see the success of the democratic policies of the West that then flee after breaking havoc…. Heartbreaking. Afghans do not deserve this.

  12. It's truly sad after 20 years separated from the Taliban, the Afghanistan people find themselves under the thumb and abuse of the Taliban once again….

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