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Highlights Exchange Rate, Trade, and Seasonal Factors: During the second week of January, the Afghani exchange rate remained broadly stable and about 5 percent stronger than last year, continuing to help contain import costs. Despite increased imports…
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A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the crisis Since the beginning of 2025 until the end of November 2025, Afghanistan has witnessed the return of over 5.2 million Afghans (deportees and returnees) from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan 2 —an…
Afghanistan
1 Introduction Long before global frameworks like the Grand Bargain (2016) and the Charter for Change (2015) brought localisation to the centre of aid reform, the principle was already embedded in Afghanistan’s post-2001 state building and development…
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Kabul, Afghanistan – UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has received US$3 million in additional funding from the Government of Japan to deliver essential health and psychosocial support services for underserved and disaster-affected populations in remote…
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Brief Note: Overall, food prices during October–December 2025 were significantly more volatile than the same period in 2024. Price pressures were most evident among import-dependent items such as wheat grain, wheat flour, rice, and cooking oil,…
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Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) Cases: No new WPV-1 positive cases reported this week. In total, 39 WPV1-positive cases have been confirmed in 2025 (9 from Afghanistan and 30 from Pakistan in 2025). Environment: Seven new WPV1 positive…
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A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the crisis On 31 August 2025, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan near Jalalabad, about 30 km from Momand Dara (Nangarhar) and Nurgal (Kunar), causing major shaking across Kunar and Nangarhar, with impacts…
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Kabul, Afghanistan, January 13, 2026 — As figures show that 17 million people in Afghanistan are now in urgent need of humanitarian food assistance, a new assessment in some of the country’s hardest hit areas by…
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WFP Afghanistan Spotlight Afghanistan faces a harsh winter at a moment of heightened vulnerability and escalating humanitarian need. After multiple years of compounding shocks, families have exhausted nearly every option they once relied on to survive. Today, 17.4 million…
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HIGHLIGHTS In the month of November, 55 Health Cluster partners reached 511,459 people with humanitarian health services through 873 health facilities in 309 districts of all 34 provinces. In November, a total of 38,446 individuals returnees were screened…
