Afghanistan is expected to remain one of the world\u2019s most severe humanitarian crises in 2026, with an estimated 21.9 million people projected to require assistance, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYears of conflict, economic fragility, underinvestment in basic services, and the rapid erosion of rights have left large segments of the population with diminished resilience,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n
It noted that these longstanding vulnerabilities are being compounded by worsening food insecurity, mass cross-border returns of refugees, climate-induced droughts, recurrent natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and the systematic marginalization of women and girls from public life.<\/p>\n
According to the report, humanitarian partners plan to target assistance to 17.5 million of the most vulnerable people in 2026, requiring an estimated 1.71 billion U.S. dollars in funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Afghanistan is expected to remain one of the world\u2019s most severe humanitarian crises in 2026, with an estimated 21.9 million people projected to require assistance, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Tuesday. \u201cYears of conflict, economic fragility, underinvestment in basic services, and the rapid erosion of rights have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,17],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[213],"class_list":{"0":"post-70397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest","8":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n