Afghanistan Crisis
Since the Afghan Taliban took control of the country in August, the future of Afghanistan remains uncertain. In the violence that characterized this year, countless innocent men, women and children were driven from their homes, or injured and killed in armed clashes, airstrikes, detonations of improvised explosive devices and shelling. The conflict also destroyed peoples’ homes, shops and hospitals. The hospitals that remain standing are still treating people wounded by conflict, with little resources left for other things.
Since the start of 2021, over half a million people in Afghanistan have fled their homes, settling in communities that were already at breaking point. Now hundreds of thousands of families are stuck, with no home and no belongings, in dangerous situations somewhere across the country. Many are still attempting to leave altogether. Many will not be able to. Now, with the banking system in freefall, and food shortages worsening, the people of Afghanistan are facing a devastating humanitarian crisis.
As UK and EU governments and other big donors suspend their funding, many of the life-saving operations that the country relied on are now hanging by a thread, risking a further deterioration of the situation and putting yet more lives at risk.