カテゴリー: Humanitarian response
Humanitarian workers expect conditions to worsen as monsoon rains continue and say millions face a terrible winterAid workers have appealed for urgent donations to fight the “absolutely devastating” impact of flooding in Pakistan, as new satellite imag…
Diarrhoea and malaria cases spread, with risk of dysentery and cholera, as millions of displaced people forced to drink flood waterHealth officials have warned of large-scale outbreaks of disease in Pakistan after severe flooding displaced millions of …
As well as losing livestock and crops, villagers must rebuild homes for a second time after floods destroyed them in 2010Ghulam Kubra and her family escaped from their home 30 minutes before the roof collapsed. Fifteen days ago, the mother of four watc…
Rugged terrain is hampering aid efforts after a deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, making it difficult for NGOs and authorities to reach people in need. The quake killed more than 1,000 people and injured many more. Many survivors have been left without…
Analysis: humanitarian appeals for Taliban-ruled country have had poor responses and there are sanctions complicationsAs Afghanistan reels from a powerful earthquake and starts to bury its more than 1,000 dead, the Taliban leadership in Kabul have appe…
Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungryThe shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has flown to Kabul to see at first-hand the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban ta…
My twin brother, Robert Ashe, who has died aged 69 of pancreatic cancer just five weeks after diagnosis, spent most of his working life supporting refugees in south-east Asia, including on the Thailand-Cambodia border, where he helped people to flee Ca…
Conference raises only $2.44bn as Russian foreign minister says west is responsible for country’s humanitarian crisisThe world’s donor drought, and growing global divisions over Afghanistan’s political direction, have been laid bare when a UN appeal fo…
The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I’m a little jealous | Nelufar Hedayat
Seven months since Kabul’s fall, my family are still pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this ongoing humanitarian crisis?The world’s attention is focused on the conflict in Ukraine. But, as someone born in Afghanistan, the catastrophic events s…
Agencies forced to cut back aid in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Ethiopia despite growing need as funds go to UkraineRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has put huge pressure on an already shrinking pot of international aid.Aid agencies working in count…
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s streets are all that stand between their family and starvationAmid the roadside restaurants and bustling crowds in one of Kabul’s busiest mar…
As the military targets civilians and blocks aid, those who have left home to avoid violence risk death to find food and healthcareRead more in our Reporting Myanmar seriesWhen fighting erupted in May between pro-democracy armed groups and the military…
Nearly 700,000 people have been forced from their homes in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2021, joining 2.9 million Afghans already internally displaced across the country at the end of 2020. The withdrawal of foreign aid after the Taliban took ove…
Backing is also given to UN resolution exempting most aid from threat of sanctionsThe US has eased its restrictions on mainstream humanitarian aid reaching famine-stricken Afghanistan and backed a UN security council resolution exempting most aid from …
There is a ‘very small window of opportunity’ to intervene, say aid workers, as poverty, conflict, drought and a freeze in humanitarian funding bring Afghanistan to the brinkLeading UK charities have launched a joint winter appeal to save the lives of …