Displaced families in Kabul caught in downward spiral
Months after fleeing to Afghanistan’s capital, aid is the only lifeline for many displaced families trying to survive a winter of soaring unemployment and food costs. By Andrew North in Kabul, Afghanistan Mullah Ahmed’s* children gaze at the flames licking up the...
UNHCR highlights urgent needs of forcibly displaced in Afghanistan as winter bites
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appealing for much more support amid acute and rising...
Afghanistan on the Brink
Displaced Afghans facing “humanitarian catastrophe” this winter. Photography by Andrew McConnell Afghanistan was facing a convergence of crises even before the Taliban took power in August. A severe drought was withering crops, the socio-economic impacts...