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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs found on Tuesday that three years after the Taliban takeover, 48 percent of Afghanistan’s population is living below the poverty line, 12.4 percent are suffering “food insecurity,” and 23.7 million rely on foreign aid.poverty has grown steadily worse under the Taliban regime, requiring more humanitarian aid for the Afghan people to fend off starvation and disease.
A group of ten international aid organizations, including CARE International, the International Rescue Committee , and Save the Children International, published a“Millions of Afghans continue to struggle in one of the world’s largest and most complex humanitarian crises, three years after the change in power. Heavily dependent on humanitarian aid, Afghans are trapped in cycles of poverty, displacement, and despair,” the statement warned.
The coalition of humanitarian aid groups tacitly admitted the political situation in Afghanistan makes it hard to round up foreign donors, and difficult to render assistance even when funding is provided. They also said humanitarian aid alone could not resolve the “ongoing crisis.” “The current isolationist approach of most donor countries does not support durable solutions to the challenges faced by the people of Afghanistan, especially children, women, ethnic and other marginalized groups,” they complained.
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