IOM Expressed Concern Over Millions Of Displaced In Afghanistan
IOM expressed concern over millions of displaced, Situations deteriorating after Taliban occupation in Afghanistan.
The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating after the occupation of the Taliban. People are rapidly leaving their country and migrating to other countries.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expressed serious concern over a large number of displaced people in Afghanistan.
The organization said “6,64,000 new Afghans were displaced after the conflict in 2021” and added that the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan was still ongoing.
What did the United Nations agency say?
In a statement, the UN agency said, “Afghanistan now has an estimated 5.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), including those living in long-term conditions, and 6,64,000 newly displaced after the conflict in 2021.”
Let us tell you that this figure is in addition to the more than 924,744 undocumented Afghan returnees who returned from Iran and Pakistan between January 1, 2021, and the end of September 2021, and 2.2.
More than a million refugees and 3.5 million undocumented Afghan citizens are already in neighboring countries, mainly in Iran and Pakistan.
Afghans are facing a bad situation.
After the Taliban occupation, most people in Afghanistan are suffering from hunger. Hundreds of people are forced to leave their homes due to starvation.
Mohammad Afzal, a mother of five children and one of the thousands of displaced Afghans struggling with difficult circumstances, told Tolo News, ‘Life is passing.
The government did not help me. We don’t have food at home. We have left our homes because of war and poverty. I’m working to find food,’
Repatriation ministry said.
Meanwhile, the Taliban-led government’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said it was trying to get more humanitarian aid from international donors to support displaced people.
The ministry said it has launched a nationwide distribution of aid to displaced people.
However, a former media official at the UN Office in Afghanistan said, “We are in a position that both the international organization and the Afghan government are unable to resolve.”
