{"id":130775,"date":"2024-05-27T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/afghanistan-needs-long-term-aid-after-floods\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T04:52:58","slug":"afghanistan-needs-long-term-aid-after-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/afghanistan-needs-long-term-aid-after-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan needs long-term aid after floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130775\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nSevere flooding in northern Afghanistan over the past week has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. The country&#8217;s Taliban government reports that more than 1,500 people have been injured and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rainfall was immediately followed by hot weather, which has hampered rescue efforts. Speaking from the Afghan capital Kabul, Thomas ten Boer, the country director of the non-governmental aid organization Welthungerhilfe, told DW: &#8220;In some areas, the temperature has risen to more than 30 degrees. Many villages are buried in mud, which dries and becomes hard, making it very difficult to remove. Some areas are hard to reach because roads have been destroyed. We&#8217;re trying to provide survivors with food and drinking water,&#8221; he said, but added that, right now, it wasn&#8217;t possible to do more than this.<\/p>\n<p>The natural disasters have completely destroyed the livelihoods of many Afghan families, who live predominantly from agriculture. People urgently need long-term help. &#8220;According to our initial estimates, more than 10,000 hectares of agricultural land were destroyed in the heavy flash flooding,&#8221; Latif Nazari, deputy minister of economy in the Taliban government, told DW. He insisted that &#8220;humanitarian aid must not be tied to political demands,&#8221; adding that the government in Kabul had contacted the UN and international NGOs, and had requested financial and technical support from all international donors.<\/p>\n<p>The latest natural disaster has exacerbated the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. The country is still recovering from severe earthquakes and flooding that hit just a few months ago. Afghanistan is not prepared to deal with extreme weather conditions, such as drought or sudden heavy rainfall, which have become more frequent in recent years. The country is particularly badly affected by the consequences of climate change, and at the same time is particularly badly positioned to mitigate these consequences. According to Afghanistan experts, as many as 80% of the population rely on agriculture for a living.<\/p>\n<p>Added to this are other emergencies, such as the forced return of more than half a million Afghans from Pakistan, and regular deportations of large groups of refugees from Iran, as well as the loss of many income opportunities since the withdrawal of international organizations from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/afghanistan-urgently-needs-long-term-aid-after-floods\/a-69141922\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/afghanistan-urgently-needs-long-term-aid-after-floods\/a-69141922\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/133700\/\">Afghanistan needs long-term aid after floods<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1045,575,10954],"class_list":["post-130775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-floods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}