The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest report that people, especially in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, are facing severe problems of poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and malnutrition.<\/p>\n
The report shows that admissions of children with severe malnutrition to centres supported by M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res have risen by more than 30 percent, and 36 positive polio cases have also been recorded this year. The risk posed by explosive remnants of past wars also remains, and OCHA has said increased support for mine-clearing programmes is necessary.<\/p>\n
OCHA also expressed concern over the spread of poverty and unemployment, the declining number of teachers and the shortage of classrooms, and described restrictions imposed on female UN staff as a serious disruption to the aid delivery process.<\/p>\n
In addition to stressing that emergency aid is insufficient because of shrinking financial resources, the agency has called for sustained support in the areas of job creation, health, education, water management and infrastructure development.<\/p>\n
Following recent developments and the broad restrictions imposed by the Taliban administration, particularly on women\u2019s activities, living conditions for many families in Afghanistan\u2019s southern provinces have become extremely difficult, and the need for serious humanitarian attention and assistance is felt more than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OCHA warns of rising poverty, malnutrition and unemployment in Kandahar and Helmand, urging stronger humanitarian support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278","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=24278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}