The United Nations said on Thursday it had set up a special trust fund to provide urgently-needed cash directly to Afghans through a system that would...
The European Union will give an additional 700 million euros ($809.2 million) in emergency aid to Afghanistan and its neighbouring countries, the European Commission said ahead...
Kabul residents said Sunday that food and fuel prices have increased sharply and that the levels of poverty and unemployment have increased dramatically across Afghanistan. Members...
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrived on Saturday in Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have spiralled following the cutting off of international aid, and the freezing of...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns that Afghanistan faces imminent collapse of health services and widespread hunger if aid and...
Deborah Lyons, head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, has met with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the new acting interior minister, to discuss much needed humanitarian relief for...
Ninety-three percent of Afghan families are not consuming sufficient food, the World Food Programme said on Friday. WFP also said three out of four households are...
Deborah Lyons, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Afghanistan, on Thursday warned that Afghanistan is at risk of “total breakdown” if the international community...
Second Vice President Sarwar Danish said Thursday that 13 million Afghans have no food security and of this eight million are facing serious hunger problems. Speaking...
The World Bank has stated that a clear commitment from international partners to continue grant support would help reduce uncertainty and improve investor confidence in Afghanistan...
President Ghani says that the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged the world into turmoil, uncertainty, and unprecedented risk. Addressing a side event – Poverty at the Cross...
The residents of Kabul, criticizing the government, say that the prices of groceries are rising; an egg is sold for AFN 12 – AFN15, against the...
Afghanistan’s National Department of Labor states that two million people have lost their jobs as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak all over the country. It...
Oxfam International said Thursday that the economic fallout from the Coronavirus pandemic could push half a billion more people into poverty. The OI, according to the...
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction – SIGAR – in their latest report stated Afghanistan as one of the poorest countries in the world. The report...