RASC News Agency: The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has issued a stark warning, stating that despite nearly 20 million people in Afghanistan requiring urgent humanitarian assistance, the international community has responded with devastating indifference to the crisis. Jan Egeland, NRC’s country director for Afghanistan, denounced this neglect in a video interview, remarking: “The same nations that poured trillions of dollars into NATO and U.S. military operations in Afghanistan are now abandoning the very civilians we still have the power to help.” He urged the international community to significantly increase humanitarian aid for the Afghanistani people before the situation deteriorates further.
Egeland also underscored that the crisis has been intensified by the mass deportation of Afghanistani refugees from Pakistan and Iran, a development that has further exacerbated an already dire humanitarian emergency. This warning follows a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which projected that by 2025, an estimated 22.9 million Afghanistani civilians will require humanitarian assistance. Additionally, OCHA revealed that Taliban-imposed restrictions and bureaucratic barriers have resulted in the suspension of 56 critical humanitarian aid projects across Afghanistan, significantly hampering relief efforts.
Meanwhile, the World Food Programme (WFP) has sounded the alarm over Afghanistan’s escalating food crisis, highlighting that women in the country face some of the most extreme levels of food insecurity worldwide. The agency warned that funding shortfalls in humanitarian aid disproportionately impact Afghanistani women, leaving them at heightened risk of malnutrition and further marginalization.
