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TALOQAN [ACTED News] - During the first six months of 2012, severe flooding, landslides, and earthquakes destroyed at least 4,126 houses in Takhar and Badakhshan provinces, in Northeast Afghanistan. This increased the vulnerability of thousands of families, already living in precarious conditions, which have no means of reliable shelter to protect them from the winter elements.

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Humanitarian needs in Afghanistan continue to mount while financial resources to respond are declining, as reflected in funding to actions coordinated in the 2012 Consolidated Appeal (CAP) and contributions to the Emergency Response Fund. Funding shortfalls are most likely to affect internally displaced people (IDPs), chronically vulnerable people coping with the consequences of the harshest winter for 15 years, victims of sudden-onset and natural disasters, and communities exposed to communicable disease.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Average GAM of 18% countrywide and a Southern region average of 29.5%

• New displacements rise by 15 per cent in June

• 75 people die in landslides after earthquakes

• No ERF funding received to date in 2012, US$100,000 available to address emergencies. US$ 10 million requested.

Afghanistan malnutrition rates above emergency thresholds

06/16/2012 14:10 GMT

KABUL, June 16, 2012 (AFP) - Afghan rescue teams have ended operations to recover the bodies of dozens of people killed in a landslide that followed earthquakes in the north of the country last week, an official said Saturday.

Two shallow tremors less than half an hour apart on Monday unleashed a deluge of rock and earth that smashed into the remote village of Mullah Jan in Baghlan province, burying as many as 71 people according to villagers.

Link: Three Earthquakes hit Hindu Kush Region - Situation Report No. 01

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES

• 20 houses destroyed in Jan Mohammad village in Burka district as a result of the earthquake on 11 June 2012. 71 people suspected to be missing

• Two are confirmed dead and two others injured during the landslide that was caused by the earthquake.

• Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) committed to provide food, emergency shelter, tents, blankets needs, first aid and psychosocial support to the affected families.