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UK to co-host UN virtual pledging summit to address humanitarian crisis in
Updated : 4 years ago IST
London [UK], February 16 (ANI): UK on Tuesday (local time) said that it will co-host an upcoming United Nations virtual pledging summit to help address the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
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Kabul hospital receives 8 malnourished children every day: UNICEF
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Amid the deepening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday expressed concern about the situation of malnourished children and informed that Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul receives
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Afghanistan humanitarian crisis to affect Pakistan, warn Senators
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 8 (ANI): Pakistan's senators have warned that a humanitarian crisis is brewing in Afghanistan that could have serious ramifications for Pakistan's national security, local media reported on Tuesday.
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Half of Afghanistan's population is facing 'tsunami of hunger': Report
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 4 (ANI): Afghanistan is under deep humanitarian crisis and over 50 per cent of Afghan's are facing a "tsunami of hunger," the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported, citing numbers from UN World Food Programme.
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WFP needs USD 2.6 billion to address humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 2 (ANI): World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday announced that it needs urgent funding of USD 2.6 billion to boost operations for 8.7 million starving Afghans as the freezing winter is deteriorating the situation.
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State Bank of Pakistan refuses to open Afghanistan Relief Fund
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 15 (ANI): The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has refused to open the Afghanistan Relief Fund and requested the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to review its decision, expressing the fear that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) might impose sancti
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Hundreds of thousands of Afghans may flee to Europe this winter due to loo
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 17 (ANI): Russian Special Presidential Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov has said that hundreds of thousands of Afghans will try to flee to Europe this winter if large-scale economic and humanitarian crises cannot be prevented, reported Sputnik.
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Humanitarians distribute aid in Afghanistan, one of world's greatest emerg
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], December 3 (ANI): The United Nations and its partners are conducting needs assessments while distributing aid across Afghanistan, one of the world's greatest emergencies, UN humanitarians said on Thursday.
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India, Pak struggling to reach consensus on providing humanitarian assista
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 30 (ANI): Islamabad and New Delhi are at loggerheads over the modalities of shipment of Indian wheat to Afghanistan via Pakistan as the two countries are struggling to find a common strategy for humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan, officials h
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Afghanistan facing worst humanitarian crisis on earth: UN
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], November 9 (ANI): Director of United Nations World Food Programme David Beasley has called the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan "the worst crisis" on earth, local media reported citing his interview with a broadcasting company.
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UK officials hold talks with Taliban, discuss ways to prevent 'Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] October 5 (ANI): UK senior officials on Tuesday held talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan to prevent the country from becoming "an incubator for terrorism".
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Afghanistan experiencing serious crisis, socio-economic collapse looming:
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], October 3 (ANI): EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday said Afghanistan is facing a "serious humanitarian crisis and a socio-economic collapse is looming" that will prove to be dangerous for the region and international security.
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