The United Nations has announced that 41 international donors have pledged 2.4 billion in aid to Afghanistan in 2022, less than the United Nations has requested.
At the summit, Britain announced 374 million in aid to Afghanistan, followed by the United States with 204 million in new aid, Germany with 218 million, and Japan with 109 million. At the end of an international conference on aid to Afghanistan hosted by the United Nations, Britain, Germany, and Qatar in Geneva, the United Nations said it hoped donors would return aid as soon as possible because it said millions of people in Afghanistan were starving. Because of the risk of death. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the gathering that the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan had deteriorated to “alarming levels” and called on donors to provide unconditional assistance to Afghans.
“Without immediate action, we are facing a crisis of hunger and malnutrition in Afghanistan. People are already selling their children and limbs to support their families. Afghanistan’s economy has been devastated.”
The United Nations has asked for 4.4 billion in aid to Afghanistan, but the 2 billion in aid announced so far is significant and shows that the international community has not forgotten Afghanistan. Mr. Guterres said in his opening remarks at the Afghanistan Aid Summit that Afghanistan’s economy had collapsed since the fall of the Taliban and that nine million Afghans were now facing severe hunger.
Martin Griffiths, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has been in Kabul for the past few days. :
“The babies that Ella gave birth to were lying on their backs, two of them were taken to an incubator who was seriously ill, one mother was caring for her several children, who were malnourished and two had died before.”.
The United Nations says the aid announced by the international community at the Geneva summit will be used by the United Nations and other donors in Afghanistan.
