Aid groups need $550mn to confront worsening Afghan crisis – UN

  18 January 2017    Read: 1295
Aid groups need $550mn to confront worsening Afghan crisis – UN
International aid groups need more than a half a billion dollars this year to help millions of Afghans struggling with increased violence and a bleak economy, as a humanitarian crisis worsens, a senior UN official said.
The UN estimates at least 9.3 million Afghans, or nearly a third of the population, will need humanitarian assistance in 2017, a 13 percent increase from last year.

Officials expect hundreds of thousands of refugees to return from Pakistan and Iran this year, even as an average of 1,500 people are newly displaced by fighting every day, said Mark Bowden, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan.

/Reuters/

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