Nearly 1 million people displaced by war, natural disasters in Afghanistan

A new report by Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) says the number of people in Afghanistan who were uprooted from their homes due to conflicts and natural disasters stood by 1 million in the past year.

Minister of NDMA National Disaster Management says more than 450 families fled to Lashkargah due to the recent conflicts in Marja district of Helmand province.

Wais Barmak, minister of NDMA National Disaster Management who attended the Humanitarian aid summit by initiative of UN noted that from now on, the world and donor countries will change their strategy for addressing the humanitarian situation.

“The situations of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have made the world to change strategy on their humanitarian assistances,” Wais Barmak, minister of NDMA National Disaster Management said.

The United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) released a report on the State of World Population in 2015 and said that totally 7.4 million people in Afghanistan need humanitarian assistance and 3.4 million of them requiring critical lifesaving interventions.

The report entitled “Shelter from the Storm” focused over casualties and damages of the years of conflicts and natural disasters in the world and Afghan state population.

Since 2008, increasing conflict in the Middle East raised the total level of direct conflict deaths to more than 200,000 per year. In 2012, two out of five people worldwide who in battle were in Syria.

In 2015, the total number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide reached 59.5 million, the highest number since the Second World War. The number of internally displaced people doubled from 2010 to 2015.