Afghanistan
Key Figures: 1 million people expected to move from Sep to Dec 2016 400,000 undocumented returnees 220,000 refugee returnees 400,000 internally displaced US$ 152 million requested for Sep-Dec 2016 Crisis Overview Over one million people are anticipated to be “on the move” internally…
Afghanistan
(Kabul, 7 September 2016) - The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, today called on the international community to urgently scale up support to over one million people anticipated to be…
Afghanistan
HERAT - An Afghan student took both Best Film and Best Director awards at Herat’s first ever film festival on the effects of armed conflict on children, held over the weekend in Herat city, the capital…
Afghanistan
WHO: Stephen O’Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator WHAT: Mission to Afghanistan WHEN: …
Afghanistan
By the time the attack on the American University in Afghanistan (AUAF) in Kabul on 24 August 2016 ended, 13 people had been killed and 49 wounded, most of them students. Families looking forward to bright…
Afghanistan
Relentless daily harassment means many are forced to leave education early. By Muhammad Ibrahim Spesalai Zarlashta still dreams of graduating from school and going on to university, but she was forced to end her studies in the 11th…
Afghanistan
August 25, 2016 Dr. Erlend Grønningen from Trondheim, Norway is a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supervising medical doctor at Boost Hospital in Lashkar Gah, capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Dr Gronningen arrived in Afghanistan in…
Afghanistan
JALALABAD - The critical importance of strengthening children’s rights was highlighted at an UN-backed radio debate broadcast out of the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. A four-member panel consisting of civil society representatives and community…
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HIGHLIGHTS • Malnutrition affects 2.7 million people including a million children under the age of five. Only 35 per cent of children with severe acute malnutrition are being reached and of those, only 25 per cent are actually…
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Fahima's sister, brother-in-law, nephew and niece died when the boat taking them from Turkey to Lesvos capsized. Her nephew's body is still missing, leaving Fahima and her remaining family unable to close this painful chapter of…
