Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency said that it had urged international organizations to resume work on 32 small and large environmental projects.

The World Food Progrmme (WFP) reports that it has distributed aid to nearly one million people Afghan provinces in 2022.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a new humanitarian contribution of €898,200 from the European Union to help Afghan families hit-hard by last year’s drought rebuild their lives.

Nearly half of all rural Afghans now face some level of food insecurity, a UN agency said on Monday, as a historic drought and deteriorating security grip the country.

 Damage caused by severe flash-flooding in Afghanistan’s western region is coming to light as aid workers reach areas largely cut off by the floodwaters.

Severe rain and floodwaters on Thursday night (March 29) hit western Afghanistan, with early indications that tens of thousands of people are affected.

Consecutive drought in the last three years – followed by a severe drought during the 2017/2018 wet season – hit almost two out of three provinces in Afghanistan, destabilizing the lives of vulnerable families and pressuring the adoption of negative coping strategies. The varied coping strategies include distress sale of productive assets (livestock ...

The death toll from flash floods caused by heavy snowfall and torrential rains in Afghanistan has climbed to 59, an official statement said on Tuesday.

Severe lack of rain in Somaliland, a self-declared state in Somalia, has resulted in drought leaving thousands without food, the Norwegian Refugee Council said Friday.

Iran can buy several million cubic meters of water from Afghanistan in exchange for gas and electricity, a Zabol lawmaker said.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, approved on Thursday sending urgent humanitarian relief supplies to Afghanistan after the country suffered a devastating wave of drought that left thousands of people displaced.

The water supply department on Sunday said the underground water level in the capital Kabul has lowered by 20 meters over the last few years.

Standing in his garden in Kabul, Baz Mohammad Kochi oversees the drilling of a new well more than 100 meters deep after his first water reservoir dried up. He is not alone.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Monday called on the member states and all relief organizations in the world to extend humanitarian support to Afghanistan on an urgent basis.

More than the two million Afghans affected as La Nina has devastating effect on the planting season.

A number of internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in western Herat province say no one including the government has helped them and they are forced to sell their children for survival.

Around 3,000 families including drought affectees, families of police martyrs and nomads received 441 tons of wheat in aid on Saturday in northern Samangan province, officials said.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contributed approximately $44 million to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to support the provision of critical food assistance to people affected by drought in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is currently facing the worst drought in decades, affecting 20 of the country’s 34 provinces.

A total of 275,000 people have been displaced by drought in western Afghanistan — 52,000 more than the number uprooted by conflict this year — with over two million threatened by the effects of water shortages, the United Nations said.

Amid a precarious security situation in Afghanistan, the worst drought in recent history, that hit two out of three provinces in Afghanistan in July, has destabilized the lives of tens of thousands of civilians, some of whom have already been displaced.