Kabul (agencies)
The World Food Program announced that most of the flood-affected areas in the Afghan province of Baghlan cannot be reached by vehicles, such as trucks, while the program published a photo showing relief workers transporting emergency supplies to the province of Baghlan using primitive means, according to the agency. Khama Press » Afghan News yesterday. Yesterday, the program wrote a memo from the social networking site “X” on its social media platform regarding the lack of easy access to flood victims in Baghlan province. He added, “The World Food Program is forced to resort to any alternative to deliver food to the survivors, who lost everything.”
Yesterday, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation also urgently appealed to all its 57 member states and others around the world as well as relief organizations to provide assistance to the Afghan people affected by the ongoing floods.
The Afghan Ministry of Refugees announced earlier yesterday that the death toll from floods in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan had risen to 315 people.
The disaster disproportionately affected children, as Save the Children estimated that about 600,000 people, including 310,000 children, reside in the five heavily affected areas of Baghlan province.
Relief teams are trying to reach stricken villages in northeastern Afghanistan, sometimes using donkeys to transport aid to thousands of injured and displaced people after sudden floods killed more than 300 people in one day.
The Taliban government confirms that 21 flights allowed the evacuation of injured people from the most affected province of Baghlan, the deployment of doctors there, and the delivery of more than seven tons of aid to its areas.
But despite the general mobilization and state of emergency in the northeast of the country, floods and the geographical terrain of the region make relief operations significantly difficult and slow.
Muhammad Ali Arianfar from a non-governmental relief organization narrated that he set out from Kabul the day before yesterday with food supplies and blankets, but because of the blocked roads and storms, it was difficult to reach Bel Khumri. He explained that it took his convoy an entire night to cross 200 and a half kilometers.
In theory, it is still two hours away from Barka, but the road leading to this region is cut off. He said: “Citizens need help. We are praying that we will be able to reach them,” adding: “Houses have been destroyed and people no longer have anything, and they have become homeless.”
In Sheikh Jalal, which is more than two hours away from Barka and which is one of the areas most affected by the sudden floods, trucks carrying aid and civilians were spotted stranded on bumpy roads and bridges that collapsed as a result of the intensity of the floods. According to the Afghan Ministry of Refugees, more than 2,600 homes were damaged or destroyed, and floods swept away more than a thousand heads of livestock, in one of the poorest countries in the world, where more than 80% of the population lives from agriculture. Last Saturday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, said on the “X” platform that the floods are “a stark reminder of Afghanistan’s vulnerability to the climate crisis.” While millions of Afghans depend on food aid, the issue of reconstruction in the country involves major challenges, as more than six months after earthquakes struck the west of the country, thousands of families are still waiting for alternative homes, schools and infrastructure.
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