Afghanistan without foreign financial assistance – on the brink of poverty

Earlier this week, the Afghan currency depreciated by 11 percent against the dollar. Although it recovered somewhat later, the overall situation is very dire. The country’s new Taliban leaders say officials have not been paid for several months, but have promised to pay those working in the public sector by the end of the year, as well as addressing the economic downturn.

Meanwhile, more than half of the population suffers from food insecurity. United Nations warnsthat Afghanistan is in danger of a humanitarian catastrophe.

After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August, international donors suspended financial aid and Western countries froze billions of euros worth of Afghan government assets abroad.

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US and international coalition forces in late August completed a mission that lasted almost 20 years In Afghanistan. The American retreat was exploited by the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist group that took control of increasingly new areas of Afghanistan and in mid-August without a fight. also occupied the national capital Kabul. As a result, the whole of Afghanistan is back under Taliban control.

Although the Taliban promised that will not try to take revenge on opponents of the regime, the international community is concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in Afghanistan and new restrictionsimposed on different groups in society, especially women.

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