Our latest situation overviews on #Afghanistan aim to contextualize recent shocks and their influence on how humanitarian needs evolve in the country, specifically #Herat province and #Kunduz district:
Herat: https://t.co/uRehIV4EqT
Kunduz: https://t.co/skG1PT6d4g
Half of the people affected by the crisis in Afghanistan are women & girls, making women aid workers essential to the delivery of life-saving aid.
In line with International Humanitarian Law, all aid workers must be able to work safely & unimpeded.
Humanitarians are #NotATarget
Iraq's agricultural production has fallen by 40% in 4 years (b/n 2014 & 2018)
Much of this is due to drought & heat. Over the next few decades, the UN projects temperatures in Iraq will rise by 2 degrees. Livestock numbers have crashed.
https://t.co/TLpKixWNAa
UN humanitarian agencies warned that a harsh winter in #Afghanistan is aggravating already severe conditions faced by millions across the country.
@OCHAAfg - Via @UN_News_Centre https://t.co/Wj3hMJQNk2
“Security across the south has improved significantly since the Taliban’s victory, but people are still suffering”
@mmodaser takes us on a trip along the US-built highway that connects Kabul to the southwest, once one of the country’s most dangerous roads https://t.co/gpdkEJyc0u
@REACH_info Whole of Afghanistan Assessment (WoAA) factsheets, reporting findings from 9880 households across 22 provinces in #Afghanistan are finally here! https://t.co/U4Kkl7NtdF
From @REACH_info on evolving dynamics in #Afghanistan "More than half of all households in all assessed population groups reportedly struggled to obtain food or money to buy food" https://t.co/jLL6A041in
1/ THREAD: Afghanistan is on the brink of a mass starvation that aid groups say threatens to kill a million children in "a winter of absolute desperation and potentially death."
https://t.co/QaYc3f32LI
“It is literally the Syrian government that is exporting the drugs. It is not like they are looking the other way while drug cartels do their thing. They are the drug cartel.” -- former US special envoy to Syria @joel_rayburn https://t.co/cO7RjNA2d3
I got to walk around Cairo writing about its oldest surviving bookstores. In the process, I accidentally made a day-long walking tour that takes you backwards through the city's history.
And because I have no chill, here's the whole tour 👇🏽 [THREAD] https://t.co/usmLDTvvTN
such an important piece by @KhattabAsser that shows the structural power imbalances stubbornly persisting in Western media (many outlets often rely on but don't prop up or offer enough support to "locals," who are likely enduring mental health struggles) https://t.co/exGXfFPqhx