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(Kabul, 6 October 2021) UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs in Afghanistan are in a race against time to deliver lifesaving aid to crisis-affected people and preposition supplies ahead of winter. ...

MEDIA ADVISORY (Geneva, 10 September 2021): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called the international community to join him in Geneva, in person and virtually, on Monday 13...

Kabul, 24 May 2021 - Humanitarian actors in Afghanistan (the UN and national and international NGOs) are committed to staying and delivering impartial and neutral assistance to millions of people in...

WHAT HAPPENED IN 2020? In 2020, the number of people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance almost doubled due mainly to conflict, natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first case...

(New York, 5 September 2019): Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock released today US$75 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund...

Kabul, 24 July 2019 –Today, the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund released US $19.5 million to assist 500,000 people in need of emergency food and agriculture, nutrition, education, shelter, core relief...

(Kabul, 16 October 2018): The United Nations’ Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) and Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) have allocated $34.6 million in emergency aid to support 2.2 million...

(Kabul, 6 September 2018): At the end of a two-day joint visit to Afghanistan, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...

(Kabul, 19 August 2018): On World Humanitarian Day, citizens across the globe come together to rally support for people living in countries at war and to pay tribute to the first responders and aid...

Kabul, 25 June 2018: The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) has allocated US$17 million to non-governmental organisations and UN agencies delivering life-saving aid to families affected by the drought...

(Kabul, 24 January 2017): The attack reportedly targeting the offices of a humanitarian organisation in Jalalabad, Nangarhar, killed two people and wounded a dozen, including five children, according...

(Kabul, 15 January 2018): Aid agencies in Afghanistan need US$430 million this year to help the most vulnerable girls, women, boys and men across the country. The money will be used to assist 2.8...

Kabul, 15 August 2017: Reacting to the news that three national staff members of the NGO Catholic Relief Services (CRS) have been killed and two injured on 14 August 2017 in Ghor Province, Dr...

Hirat, 2 August 2017: In light of the attack on the Jawadia mosque in Hirat which killed at least 31 people and injured scores of others, the city’s regional hospital was called on to provide...

(Kabul, 6 February 2017): The UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, Mr. Mark Bowden, was saddened to learn of the loss of life and...

Kabul, 19 August 2016 – At the start of a three-day visit to Afghanistan, high-level officials from the United Nations and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation today commemorated World...

BALANCE As of 22 May, US$ 31,381,306 is available with the administrative agent MPTF with deposits from: Australia US$ 5,848,785 May 2016 Denmark US$ 1,448,394 January 2016 Germany US$ 1,122,900...

(Kabul, 27 January 2016): The humanitarian community in Afghanistan is seeking US$393 million to meet, through collective and coordinated action in 2016, the acute life-saving needs of the most...

Kabul, Afghanistan Following the powerful earthquake struck that Badakshan Province in Afghanistan yesterday, the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan quickly mobilized resources to...

(New York, 13 October 2015): The Head of Operations at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, John Ging, called today for renewed international commitment to address...