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UNHCR wants to
stay
in
Afghanistan
- more humanitarian aid required
1 a.m .:
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) does not want to leave Afghanistan despite the fact that the militant Islamist Taliban has taken power. "We want to stay in the country because the people there need help now more than ever," the UNHCR representative in Germany, Katharina Lumpp, told the "Welt". Together with other humanitarian organizations, they want to continue providing humanitarian aid "in accordance with the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence".
The UNHCR focuses on helping displaced people and other people in need as long as you have access to them and as best you can in this difficult, constantly changing situation.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, there are currently around 200 employees working in Afghanistan.
"Since the need for humanitarian aid has increased enormously and is likely to continue to rise, the people need more international support," warned Lumpp.
Biden and Johnson arrange virtual G7 meeting
12:20 a.m.:
After a phone call with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Biden wants to set up a virtual meeting of the G7 heads of state and government next week to coordinate the approach to the situation in Afghanistan.
The two heads of state and government "discussed the need for continued close coordination between allies and democratic partners on future policy on Afghanistan, including ways in which the global community can provide further humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees and other vulnerable Afghans" , announced the White House.
Welthungerhilfe's appeal: continue development aid for Afghanistan
00:05:
Welthungerhilfe has asked the federal government not to completely stop development aid for Afghanistan after the Taliban actually took power.
"Even after the hasty withdrawal, Germany has a responsibility to alleviate the suffering of the people in Afghanistan," said the organisation's general secretary, Mathias Mogge, of the editorial network Germany.
The government must provide sufficient funds for the continuation of life-saving humanitarian aid.
“The Afghan people need our help.
A humanitarian catastrophe is taking place there, ”emphasized Mogge.
According to him, 13 million people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat.
Three million children alone are malnourished.
The federal government has frozen aid funds for Afghanistan.
"As far as development aid is concerned, but also our stabilization measures, we have now frozen these funds for the time being," said Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) on Tuesday after a meeting of the federal government's crisis team in Berlin.
One wants to first look at the further development in Afghanistan.
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