{"id":20986,"date":"2026-09-02T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/afghanistan-earthquake-families-still-living-in-tents-ocha\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:15:22","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-families-still-living-in-tents-ocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/afghanistan-earthquake-families-still-living-in-tents-ocha\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says families still living in tents a year after eastern Afghanistan quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that one year after the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, a number of affected families are still living in tents and facing difficulties caused by bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Wednesday, 11 September, OCHA said these families still need safe homes, clean water, food, essential household items and livelihoods to rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, last year\u2019s devastating earthquakes affected more than 221,000 people in eastern Afghanistan and left them in need of humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA\u2019s report on the continued hardship faced by earthquake-hit families comes as the agency has also warned in recent days of a severe funding shortage to respond to populations affected by natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA is the United Nations humanitarian coordination agency and, in emergencies, coordinates the urgent needs of those affected with relief organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN says families in eastern Afghanistan are still living in tents a year after a devastating earthquake hit the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}