Afghanistan’s Free Fall Sparks Accelerating Humanitarian Crisis
- Pentagon watchdog says conditions set to worsen with drought
- Taliban lost World Bank aid over reversal on girls’ education
Women with their children wait to receive a food donation during Ramadan in Kandahar on April 27.
Photographer: Javed Tanveer/AFP/Getty Images
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The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the resulting cut in international aid has led to a worsening humanitarian crisis, according to the latest report by a Pentagon watchdog that has spent more than a decade tracking conditions in the war-torn nation.
More than 24 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, up from about 18.4 million last year, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or Sigar, said in a report late Tuesday night.