{"id":3320,"date":"2025-12-14T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/afghanistan-power-shortage-urban-life-un-warning\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:08:12","slug":"afghanistan-power-shortage-urban-life-un-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/afghanistan-power-shortage-urban-life-un-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Shortages Disrupt Urban Life Across Afghanistan, UN Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has warned that many Afghan cities are facing severe electricity shortages, a situation that is directly impacting the daily lives of urban residents.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency\u2019s assessment, families are enduring frequent daily blackouts, commercial activities are suffering, and children are losing the opportunity to study at night due to the lack of electricity\u2014a factor that negatively affects education quality and social well-being.<\/p>\n<p>The organization stressed that targeted investment in renewable energy could provide a fundamental solution to mitigating the electricity crisis and building sustainable and resilient cities capable of withstanding future challenges.<\/p>\n<p>However, the lack of transparent planning and effective investment by the Taliban administration in energy infrastructure has raised concerns. Citizens and international organizations have repeatedly urged officials to address the issue with seriousness and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN warns power shortages in Afghan cities are disrupting daily life, harming education and business amid lack of Taliban investment in energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}