Gandhara
The UN’s special representative for Afghanistan has warned about a potential “humanitarian catastrophe” in Afghanistan as she appealed to the international community to find a way to provide financial aid to the country.
Deborah Lyons told the UN Security Council on November 17 that 60 percent of Afghanistan’s 38 million people now faced crisis levels of hunger and the situation will likely worsen over the winter.
Lyons said the international community must find ways to provide financial support to the Afghan people, who she said “feel abandoned, forgotten, and indeed punished by circumstances that are not their fault…
