THE WASHINGTON POST: “As evacuation airlifts end, those left behind in Afghanistan face dire humanitarian crises”
September 1, 2021 | Brother Anwar Khan, president of Islamic Relief USA, was recently quoted in The Washington Post regarding Afghanistan refugee.
“If things continue this way,” said Anwar Khan, the president of Islamic Relief USA “the question is going to be not if children will die, but how many.”
Here are some of the struggles the nation of some 40 million people is facing.
A crisis of the displaced
Women and children collect water in a camp for internally displaced people in Kandahar in July 2021. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)
Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled the country as the Taliban has returned, adding to the 2.6 million Afghan refugees registered around the world. But within the country’s borders, there is also a crisis of homelessness and displacement. Afghanistan has some 3.5 million internally displaced people, or IDPs, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.”
See the full article on The Washington Post.