Afghanistan's child deaths are rising as food distributions face cuts, UN says

Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding ...
Jurist

Afghanistan humanitarian crisis has intensified since Taliban’s return to power, rights group reports

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that in the five years since the Taliban's resurgence, the group has fostered a ...
Human Rights Watch

Afghanistan: Taliban Assault on Rights Deepens 5 Years on

Afghanistan’s Taliban have entrenched one of the world’s worst human rights crises and systematically dismantled the rights ...

World Food Programme warns hunger crisis in Afghanistan worsening

The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that the hunger crisis in Afghanistan is reaching increasingly devastating proportions. Cuts to development aid from many donor countries mean that the WFP can ...

Months of fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed nearly 500 Afghan civilians, UN says

Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has killed nearly 500 civilians in Afghanistan and wounded over 1,000 ...

UN officials urge Western nations to engage with Afghanistan to prevent it sliding into instability

Two top United Nations officials are urging Western nations to engage with Afghanistan to prevent the country from sliding ...

What I saw in a week on the front line of Afghanistan’s hunger crisis

As Country Director for Afghanistan with Action Against Hunger, I travelled to Helmand for a long-awaited field visit.
Human Rights Watch

Afghanistan: 5 Years Under Taliban Rule

August 15, 2026 will mark five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the ...
The Columbian

Afghanistan’s child deaths rising amid food aid cuts

Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force cuts in food distributions and other support, the U.N ...