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January 18, 2021 The UN raises the alarm: the Afghan people are exhausted and in need of peace, after decades of war, natural disasters and the pandemic.



There are 18 million people reduced to hunger and that is why the United Nations is making an appeal to find 1.3 billion dollars in funding.

In 4 years the needy population has grown by 6 times and the situation is serious for children: one out of two children is malnourished.



"To survive, people get into debt and more, they favor early marriages of young daughters and try to get the boys to work instead of sending them to school," said Parvathy Ramaswami, UN humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan.



According to the UN, it is necessary to intervene soon because the survival of millions of people depends on humanitarian aid and the ability to find sufficient financial resources.

"The consequences of late or insufficient funding would be disastrous," Ramaswami stresses. 



Negotiations and vaccines

A glimmer of hope, according to the United Nations, comes from the negotiations recently launched between the warring groups: "After decades of war, people are mentally exhausted and yearn for an end to the deaths and suffering of civilians", he said. added the UN representative.

A permanent ceasefire is therefore essential, also to allow humanitarian workers to intervene in the most difficult to reach areas.



Meanwhile, the polio vaccination campaign has started in Afghanistan.

The goal is to vaccinate 9.9 million children under the age of five, as announced by the Kabul Ministry of Health, which gave the news.

65,000 health workers mobilized.



According to official data last year in Afghanistan there were at least 56 cases of polio and 3.3 million children were excluded from the vaccination campaign.

According to the Dpa agency, the Taliban announced a meeting in Qatar between Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and the leaders of WHO and Unicef ​​for South Asia to discuss the vaccination campaign in Afghanistan, where to complicate the challenge there is also the coronavirus pandemic.