Global donors pledge $1 billion for Afghanistan as poverty, hunger haunting nation
Amid increasing poverty and hunger and fear of mass exodus, international donors have pledged more than a billion dollars to help Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power, and foreign aid has dried up.


UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was impossible to say how much of the money had been promised in response to an emergency UN appeal for $606 million to meet the most pressing needs of a country in crisis.
After decades of war and suffering, Afghans are facing "perhaps their most perilous hour", he said in his opening remarks to a donor conference in Geneva.
"The people of Afghanistan are facing the collapse of an entire country — all at once."
He said food supplies could run out by the end of this month, and the World Food Programme said 14 million people were on the brink of starvation.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan according to their strict interpretation of Islamic law from 1996-2001 and were toppled in an invasion led by the United States, which accused them of sheltering militants behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
They swept back to power last month in a lightning advance as the last U.S.-led NATO troops pulled out and the forces of the Western-backed government melted away.
With billions of dollars of aid flows abruptly ending due to Western antipathy and distrusttowards the Taliban, several speakers in Geneva said donors had a "moral obligation" to keep helping Afghans after a 20-year engagement.
Neighbours China and Pakistan have already offered help.
SOURCE: REUTERS

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