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1.5 million Afghans living with serious disabilities
UNAMA noted that children are disproportionately affected, bearing some of the worst consequences of the country’s long-running violence.
Nearly 1.5 million Afghans are living with severe disabilities, most of them injuries stemming from more than 40 years of conflict, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Wednesday.
In a statement posted on its official X account, UNAMA noted that children are disproportionately affected, bearing some of the worst consequences of the country’s long-running violence.
Afghanistan remains among the world’s most heavily mine-contaminated nations, with landmines and unexploded ordnance continuing to cause deaths and life-altering injuries on a near-daily basis.
Over the past two weeks, explosions involving explosive remnants of war killed seven people—including several children—and wounded nine others in separate incidents across Kandahar, Uruzgan, and Balkh provinces, according to UNAMA.
A recent assessment by Afghanistan’s National Disaster Management Authority estimates that approximately 1,150 square kilometers of land across the country is still contaminated with mines and other explosive remnants of war.