Survivors face difficulties in receiving help; Thousands are homeless
This Thursday (4.Set.2025), rescue teams removed bodies from the rubble of houses destroyed by earthquakes that hit Afghanistan last week. According to the Taliban, who rules the country, the disaster left at least 2,205 dead and 3,640 injured.
Hard survivors face uncertainties: global humanitarian aid agencies point to the scarcity of resources. The country of 42 million inhabitants, plagued by war and strict climate, has suffered from the restriction of world assistance for the policies of the Taliban regime.
United States foreign aid funding cuts promoted by the US President (Republican Party), and donor dissatisfaction with restrictive Taliban measures in relation to women and their limitation to rescue teams intensified the isolation of Afghanistan. The information is from the agency.
On Wednesday (3.Set), John Aylieff, head of the WFP (World Food Program) in Afghanistan, told the agency, part of the UN (United Nations), has only funding and inventory to support survivors for another 4 weeks.
According to authorities, 6,700 houses were destroyed after 2 earthquakes reach the country, of magnitude 6.0 and at a depth of 8km, of magnitude 5.2 and at a depth of 10km.
The International Federation of Red Cross Societies and Crescent Red said that humanitarian needs in the country are “vast and grow quickly”. Citing initial data, the organization said that“up to 84,000 people are direct and indirectly affected, with thousands of displaced”For the disaster.
Afghanistan is prone to seismic shaking because it is located in the Hindu Kush mountain range, where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates are located. In 2024, a series of earthquakes in the west of the country left more than 1,000 dead, reinforcing the country’s vulnerability to natural disasters.
