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1,000 tons of humanitarian aid heads for Afghanistan from China
(Last Updated On: November 21, 2021)
Wang Yu, China’s ambassador to Kabul, said a train carrying more than 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid has left Xinjiang in China for Afghanistan.
Yu tweeted on Sunday morning that the shipment includes food and other items, including clothes and shoes.
According to him, since July, trains from China have delivered more than 2,600 tons of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
Afghanistan, which is dealing with economic sanctions, drought, COVID and poverty following years of conflict is teetering on the edge of a humanitarian catastrophe, according to aid organizations and the United Nations.
Poverty levels have sharply increased since the fall of the previous government due to the freezing of foreign assets by the United States.