Afghan People Should 'Not Be Abandoned': Top Red Cross Official
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Afghan people should 'not be abandoned': top Red Cross official
ICRC director of operations Yasmine Praz Dessimoz told AFP in an interview in Kabul that Afghans are "struggling to survive with significant humanitarian needs" and a collapsing health system. One million Afghan children face life-threatening malnutrition, while 3.7 million suffer from acute malnutrition, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF warned last week. Owing to the decrease in international aid, 100 clinics that had treated malnut…
"We see a population struggling to survive with significant humanitarian needs, a health system that is collapsing, a high level of unemployment", stressed in an interview with AFP Yasmine Praz Dessimoz, after a several-day visit to Afghanistan. Last Tuesday, the United Nations Children's Fund warned that one million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Afghanistan were at risk of death if nothing was done to help them. Due to th…
"We see a population struggling to survive with significant humanitarian needs, a health system that is collapsing, a high level of unemployment," said the Director of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Afghanistan Slips from Global Attention Despite ‘Extreme Needs,’ Red Cross Says – KabulNow
Afghanistan has slipped from international attention despite its people facing “extreme humanitarian needs,” a senior International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official said, calling on the world not to abandon Afghan communities. The post Afghanistan Slips from Global Attention Despite ‘Extreme Needs,’ Red Cross Says appeared first on KabulNow.
Yasmine Perez-Desimoz, director of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross, says the people of Afghanistan are struggling to survive, with dire humanitarian needs and a collapsing health system. Speaking to AFP in Kabul, Ms. Desimoz said that despite the dire needs of its people, Afghanistan has fallen out of the world’s spotlight. This […] The post Senior Red Cross official: Afghan people are struggling to survive appeared f…
Red Cross official urges world not to abandon Afghanistan
Afghanistan has slipped down the international agenda despite the “extreme needs” of its people, a senior International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official said, urging the international community not to abandon Afghan communities. ICRC Director of Operations Yasmine Praz Dessimoz told AFP in an interview in Kabul that Afghans were “struggling to survive with significant humanitarian needs” as the country’s health system continues to face…
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