{"id":35669,"date":"2021-08-22T06:32:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/afghans-face-catastrophe-without-urgent-aid-un-warns"},"modified":"2021-08-22T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:44:55","slug":"afghans-face-catastrophe-without-urgent-aid-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35669","title":{"rendered":"Afghans face catastrophe without urgent aid, UN warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK\u2019s \u2018complacent\u2019 response<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is facing an \u201cabsolute catastrophe\u201d involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless an urgent humanitarian effort is agreed in the wake of the US withdrawal, world leaders are warned today.<\/p>\n<p>The British military said on Sunday morning that seven Afghan civilians had been killed in crowd crushes around Kabul\u2019s international airport where \u201cconditions on the ground remain extremely challenging\u201d. With growing anger over Britain\u2019s chaotic evacuation effort, a meeting of G7 leaders has been hastily arranged for early this week. Senior figures in Kabul warned that the latest chaos is combining with drought, huge displacements of people and economic paralysis to create a disaster requiring immediate international action.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/afghans-face-catastrophe-without-urgent-aid-un-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK\u2019s \u2018complacent\u2019 responseAfghanistan is facing an \u201cabsolute catastrophe\u201d involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,531,950,1527,2289,1622,4,494,61,44,52,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-dominic-raab","category-famine","category-hamid-karzai","category-keir-starmer","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35685,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35669\/revisions\/35685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}