The NRC has already provided cash assistance to over 4,300 displaced individuals and plans to extend support to another 4,000 in the coming days.
Some of the most intense fighting has been reported around the Torkham Crossing in Nangarhar Province, a key trade and transit route between the two countries.
Local officials in Afghanistan’s Kunar province have reported that an airstrike conducted by Pakistani forces in Khas Kunar district resulted in the death of three children....
Six months after a massive earthquake devastated eastern Afghanistan, about 25,000 children in Kunar province are still living in tents with no clear timeline for reconstruction,...
Dr. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF Representative, added that nearly 80% of Afghan children affected by malnutrition are under two, making early intervention critical.
UNICEF previously warned that nearly 270,000 earthquake-affected children in northern and eastern Afghanistan face heightened risks as winter sets in.
Pakistan, however, has denied carrying out any airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan.
Officials warned that continued violations risk destabilizing the wider region at a time when both countries face security and economic pressures.
Roads, communication networks, and health centers were severely damaged, leaving many areas cut off from assistance.
Officials from the Islamic Emirate have previously visited the disaster-affected areas, assuring residents that their challenges would be addressed and that long-term housing solutions were underway.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has provided emergency food assistance to more than 58,000 people in the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, and...
India has dispatched a new consignment of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the recent deadly earthquake in east of the country. Randir Jaiswal,...
Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, has called on the international community to step up assistance for those affected by the recent earthquake...
During his visit to earthquake-affected communities this week, Bayat also announced a housing reconstruction program for families who lost their homes.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, visited the earthquake-stricken Kunar province on Friday, where he expressed sympathy with the victims of the...
Urgent funding is needed to scale up life-saving support for families forced to sleep outdoors following powerful earthquakes that recently struck eastern Afghanistan, the UN’s migration...
Earthquakes that flattened villages in eastern Afghanistan on August 31, destroyed homes and livestock, the only assets owned by most families, and left survivors with almost...
Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) has distributed free SIM cards to victims of the recent earthquake in Kunar province as part of its humanitarian relief efforts....
In the aftermath of powerful earthquakes that struck eastern Afghanistan last week, the Bayat Foundation and Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) have mobilized substantial humanitarian support...
The Russian emergencies ministry has announced that it has sent the first batch of its humanitarian aid to earthquake-hit Afghanistan. “An Il-76 plane of the Russian...