UN Warns Declining Aid Exacerbates Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned that decades of armed conflict and successive climate shocks in Afghanistan have left millions of people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.

According to this assessment, while global financial aid is decreasing, community solidarity and cooperation in many areas have prevented the complete collapse of people’s lives; however, these support mechanisms cannot replace sustained and organized humanitarian aid.

Relief organizations emphasize that the simultaneous pressures of poverty, instability, and climate events have severely reduced families’ resilience, and the lack of effective and responsive planning by the Taliban administration has created significant challenges to regular access to basic services for the population.

The United Nations has once again called on the international community to continue humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, warning that without sustained support, local efforts alone will be insufficient to meet the wide-ranging humanitarian needs.