By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 20, 2023Uzbekistan dispatched 185 tons of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to officials. The humanitarian aid of 185 tons included food comprising flour, wheat, vegetable oil, pasta, canned goods, sugar, and instant food items, said an official statement reported by Gazeta. UZ. The humanitarian aid was dispatched to Hairatan and transferred by the Uzbek special representatives Ismatulla Irgashev, First Deputy Head of Surkhandarya region…
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By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, April 12, 2023 at 8:47 PMThe UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that almost 24 million Afghans need humanitarian assistance. “UN national personnel – both women and men – have been instructed not to report to UN offices, with only limited and calibrated exceptions made for critical tasks, but they will be working from home and continue to be paid. The mission said any negative consequences of this crisis for…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, April 8, 2023The Fourth ministerial conference of Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries will take place in Uzbekistan to discuss political settlement and stabilizing the humanitarian and socio-economic situation in the country. Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia, will lead the Russian delegation at the fourth Foreign Minister’s meeting of the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan in Uzbekistan on April 13, the Russian Ministry said on Friday, TASS News Agency Reported. Russia…
By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews, April 04, 2023 at 7:13 PMThe United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that despite Afghanistan being the world’s largest and most severe humanitarian crisis, OCHA’s 2023 appeal has received less than 5% of its requirement to help people in need in Afghanistan. OCHA said that 28.3 million people in Afghanistan need humanitarian aid, of which 23% are women, 54% are children, and 8.3% of them…
Reuters Report in Dawn, March 19th, 2023KABUL: The UN World Food Programme has been forced to cut rations to four million Afghans this month, it said in a statement late on Friday, due to a funding shortfall in the midst of the country’s severe humanitarian crisis. “Due to funding constraints, at least four million people will receive just half of what they need to get by in March,” the statement said, adding the UN food…
by Fatema Adeeb, in Tolo News, Feb 9, 2023 ar 8:16 PMRussian President Vladmir Putin pointed out that the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan had deteriorated, with “four million” Afghans needing urgent emergency assistance. The fifth multilateral meeting of security envoys was held on Wednesday in Moscow. The meeting lasted for two days. “The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is deteriorated. According to Russia’s information, about four million people in the country are in need of urgent…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press, Jan 26, 2023Taliban authorities rejected the UNOCHA report that Islamic Emirate will collapse due to the prevailing economic and humanitarian crisis in the country. Zabiullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate Spokesperson on Wednesday said on Twitter that the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) report that the current Afghanistan administration will collapse due to economic challenges is incorrect. The Islamic Emirate has deep roots; it…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, January 22nd, 2023UNITED NATIONS: In a clear message to Kabul’s de facto rulers, a UN delegation has warned that isolating women will also isolate Afghanistan and as the country faces a terrible humanitarian crisis, it cannot afford to do so. The high-level UN delegation that visited Afghanistan this week, also urged the international community to support Afghan women. UN legal experts, in another statement, described the “collapse of the rule…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 17, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon Alem and Olama (Islamic scholars) to instil humanitarian values among people and guide them against terrorism, militancy and drug abuse. “These are destroying families and the society as well,” she said while virtually inaugurating 50 more model mosques across the country from her official residence Gono Bhaban. She also requested all, particularly the children, not to get involved in militancy, saying,…
by Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor, in The Guardian, Jan 7, 2023The UN’s lead humanitarian coordinator has said UN-supplied aid cannot continue if the Taliban do not lift their ban on women working for humanitarian aid agencies in Afghanistan. Martin Griffiths, the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is due to visit Kabul shortly to discuss the impasse. Although he said he did not want to pre-empt talks and was willing…
Reuters report, January 3, 2023KABUL: The Taliban administration will encourage self-sufficiency and wants international trade and investment, the acting commerce minister said, as Afghanistan faces isolation and suspension of some humanitarian operations over restrictions on women. “We will start a national self-sufficiency programme, we will encourage all government administrations to use domestic products, we will also try to encourage people through mosques to support our domestic products” Haji Nooruddin Azizi said. “We will support any…