UN calls for US$139.6 million to aid people in eastern Afghanistan hit by earthquake

NEW YORK, 9th September, 2025 (WAM) -- The United Nations contiguous launched a four-month exigency effect program for US$139.6 cardinal for Afghanistan truthful that humanitarian organisations tin assistance 457,000 radical affected by past week's devastating earthquake successful the eastbound region.

"This is simply a infinitesimal wherever the planetary assemblage indispensable excavation heavy and amusement solidarity with a colonisation that has already endured truthful overmuch suffering," said Indrika Ratwatte, Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan. "With wintertime accelerated approaching, we are successful a contention against clip to enactment affected communities with conscionable the bare minimum. The resilience of the Afghan radical has been continually tested and determination is simply a existent danger, with each situation that hits, that the fragile gains made successful caller years volition beryllium reversed."

Almost 500,000 radical successful Kunar, Laghman and Nangarhar provinces of eastbound Afghanistan person been straight impacted by the earthquake, with implicit 2,200 radical having mislaid their lives and a further 3,600 injured arsenic of 7 September, according to reports from the de facto authorities.

Indrika Ratwatte added that humanitarian partners are doing their utmost to support women, children and different at-risk groups astatine the centre of the response. "Child-friendly spaces and harmless spaces for women are being established," helium added.