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AFGHANISTAN: MORE THAN ONE IN THREE CHILDREN FACING CRISIS LEVELS OF HUNGER AS WINTER STARTS
Analysis of new hunger data found that just over 9 million children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger before March 2026.
AFGHANISTAN: Children flee homes after second major earthquake in two months
The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck in the early hours of Monday, with the epicentre in Samangan province, an hour from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Severe shaking was also felt in the capital, Kabul, with tremors reported as far away as Pakistan. The tremors caused panic and terror for children and their families, forcing them to run from their homes in provinces across northern Afghanistan where temperatures are dropping as winter sets in.
STAFF ACCOUNT: After the Afghanistan earthquake, 'we feel so much pain in our hearts'
Mujib Ur Rehman Hamdard, the head of Save the Children Afghanistan's Kunar Field Office, shares his experience of the Afghanistan earthquake and the initial response one month on from the 6.0 magnitude earthquake which devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan, including Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, on the 1st September 2025.
Nearly 1,200 children killed in Afghanistan earthquakes – more than half of all deaths
Children make up more than half of the about 2,100 confirmed deaths to date, according to new data from the UN. More than 500 girls and 650 boys lost their lives in the earthquakes, the first of which struck at night on 31 August, flattening homes in seconds
AFGHANISTAN: Midwife delivers baby under the trees as country hit by third quake in a week
Pakiza*, 25, a midwife with four years of experience at Save the Children, travelled through blocked roads and rubble to get to the earthquake affected areas, where she was quickly asked by residents asked her to help a pregnant woman who was in active labour.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: Aftershocks cause terror for children in Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake for nearly 30 years
A rolling wave of aftershocks in eastern Afghanistan is terrifying children who have lost families and homes in the country’s deadliest earthquake in nearly 30 years with the death toll rising to over 2,200.
CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN FACE A CRISIS WITHIN A CRISIS AS EARTHQUAKE STRIKES
As a ruthless 6.0-magnitude earthquake ripped through eastern Afghanistan this week, it flattened entire mountain villages and shattered the fragile lives of thousands, particularly children, who were already grappling with soaring humanitarian needs and funding cuts.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: Thousands of children in urgent need after villages cut off as death toll rises
Thousands of children need of food, water and shelter in eastern Afghanistan as teams battle against time to rescue injured people from mountainous and remote villages destroyed by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: Rescue teams racing to the site of a devastating earthquake with hundreds dead and thousands of children potentially impacted
Rescue teams are racing to Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan where a devastating earthquake has killed at least 600 people and injured more than 3,000 including many children
Afghanistan: One in five children facing crisis levels of hunger as funding cuts reduce food aid
About one in five children in Afghanistan could face crisis levels of hunger before October, with funding cuts reducing the amount of food aid available for families, Save the Children said
Nearly 50,000 Afghan children pushed out of Pakistan in first two weeks of April
The children form part of a surge of returnees, with 84,000 people crossing into Afghanistan in recent weeks, adding to a total of about 940,000 people – including about 545,000 children – who have now returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan since September 2023.
From Ukraine to Afghanistan: Children with severe disabilities, fleeing domestic violence left to fend for themselves as aid cuts stop cash assistance programmes – Save the Children
A 12-year-old boy with Downs Syndrome in Ukraine who has been left severely emotionally distressed by a lifetime of conflict is at risk of becoming homeless due to foreign aid cuts, Save the Children said, as the child rights organisation shared examples of the impacts on cash assistance work around the world.
AFGHANISTAN: Extreme weather forces more people from their homes in first six months of 2024 than all 2023
Extreme weather events forced at least 38,000 people from their homes in Afghanistan in the first six month of this year
AFGHANISTAN: At least 1,500 children lose their homes as country battered by latest deadly floods
Floods from heavy rains have killed about 40 people in eastern Afghanistan and about 1,500 children have lost their homes Save the Children said.
SAVE THE CHILDREN’S GLOBAL MEDIA AWARDS 2024 OPENS FOR ENTRIES
Save the Children International launches its inaugural Global Media Awards to celebrate excellence in journalism for child rights.
35 million children are under threat in most active Atlantic hurricane season ever - Save the Children
About 35 million children are living in areas exposed to Atlantic hurricanes during what could be the most active hurricane season in recorded history
Afghanistan: Nearly three in ten children forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024
Afghanistan: Nearly three in ten children forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, new figures show.
Floods in Afghanistan: What do they mean for children?
Explainer about the situation in Afghanistan since the flash floods that have left over 40,000 children homeless.
Afghanistan floods: ‘There is no life left for us here. You want to put your head in your hands and shout and cry.’
Afghanistan floods: ‘There is no life left for us here. You want to put your head in your hands and shout and cry.’
Afghanistan: About 40,000 Children Lose Homes After Heavy Rains and Flash Floods in Baghlan Province
Flash floods in Afghanistan damage houses and kills livestock and people
Afghanistan: Flash floods kill at least 200 people including children
Flash floods in Baghlan in Northern Afghanistan have killed at least 200 people - including children.
Afghanistan: Nearly 400,000 children to receive medicines from humanitarian aid flight after rise in preventable illnesses
Nearly 400,000 children to receive medicines from humanitarian aid flight after rise in preventable illnesses
Afghanistan: 250,000 children in need of food, homes and education after returning from Pakistan
Save the Children press release on families returning from Pakistan to Afghanistan
Nine children killed by a single landmine in Afghanistan
Nine children killed by a single landmine in Afghanistan The children - five boys and four girls, all aged between 5 and 10 - found the decades old mi
AFGHANISTAN: Lack of snow raises fears of further drought as children and communities suffer impacts of climate crisis
A warmer-than-average winter and lack of snow are ominous signs of worsening climatic and drought conditions in Afghanistan.
ONE IN THREE CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN TO ENTER 2024 FACING CRISIS LEVELS OF HUNGER
Save the Children press release on IPC figures on hunger in Afghanistan
Major outbreak of disease escalating in camps as 250,000 people, mostly children, return to Afghanistan from Pakistan
Major outbreak of disease escalating in camps as 250,000 people, mostly children, return to Afghanistan from Pakistan
‘Children are returning with nothing’: Thousands of Afghan families leave Pakistan to avoid potential deportation
Save the Children press release on children crossing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Afghanistan: Four earthquakes in a week leave thousands living in the open and in tents
Save the Children press release following earthquake in Afghanistan
New humanitarian funding urgently needed after devastating earthquake in western Afghanistan causes ‘a crisis on top of a crisis’ -
Thousands of children are without homes after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake devastated large parts of Herat province in western Afghanistan.
The international community must not turn its back on hungry children in Afghanistan as 2 million people lose food assistance – Save the Children
The international community must not turn its back on hungry children in Afghanistan as 2 million people lose food assistance – Save the Children
STAFF ACCOUNT: Curing malnourished children as malnutrition cases skyrocket by 50% in Afghanistan
Ahmad* joined Save the Children in 2021. He is a nurse with Save the Children’s Mobile Health Team and provides treatment for children and communities
More than a third of children surveyed in Afghanistan pushed into child labour, as country marks two years of Taliban rule
More than a third of children surveyed in Afghanistan pushed into child labour
International community failing Afghanistan during major locust outbreak as 8 million people cut off from food aid
Eight million people in Afghanistan are cut off from food aid and the international community must step up
JOINT INGO STATEMENT: BAN ON WOMEN AID WORKERS IN AFGHANISTAN MUST BE LIFTED
Save the Children and INGO statement on Afghanistan ban on UN women aid workers
Afghanistan: Eighteen months after ban, classroom doors must open for secondary school girls
As schools across Afghanistan prepare for the new academic year next week, secondary school aged girls must be allowed to go back to the classroom aft
“We need women to help women”: Afghan women cut off from aid following Taliban ban on female NGO workers
Woman weaves carpets in Afghanistan to support children following NGO ban