The Latest: UN says rural Afghans have critical need for aid

UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. authoritative says 4 cardinal Afghans are facing “a nutrient emergency,” with the bulk successful agrarian areas wherever determination is simply a captious request for backing for planting wintertime wheat, provender for livestock and currency assistance for susceptible families, aged and disabled.

The manager of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Office of Emergencies and Resilience said Tuesday successful a video briefing from Kabul says 70% of Afghans unrecorded successful agrarian areas and agriculture is indispensable to the Afghan population.

Rein Paulson says it represents conscionable implicit 25% of Afghanistan’s GDP, straight employs 45% of the enactment force, “and astir importantly it provides livelihood benefits for afloat 80% of the Afghan population.”

He says a terrible drought is affecting 7.3 cardinal radical successful 25 of the country’s 34 provinces and agrarian communities besides person been wounded by the pandemic. He says 4 cardinal Afghans are facing a humanitarian exigency characterized by “extreme gaps successful nutrient consumption, precise precocious levels of acute malnutrition and excess mortality.”

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

WASHINGTON — American quality officials accidental al-Qaida could statesman to endanger the homeland from Afghanistan wrong 1 to 2 years, echoing warnings that were issued anterior to the U.S. withdrawal ending its 20-year war.

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Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, who leads the Defense Intelligence Agency, gave that estimated timeframe Tuesday portion speaking astatine the Intelligence & National Security Summit.

David Cohen, lawman manager of the Central Intelligence Agency, said the U.S. already had detected “some of the indications of immoderate imaginable question of al-Qaida to Afghanistan.”

Experts person agelong said the Taliban inactive maintains ties to al-Qaida, which took sanctuary successful Afghanistan anterior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Counterterrorism experts estimated anterior to the withdrawal that al-Qaida had respective 100 fighters successful Afghanistan.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The overseas curate successful Afghanistan’s caller Taliban-run Cabinet says the authorities remains committed to its promises not to let militants to usage its territory to onslaught others.

In his archetypal property league since the Taliban formed an interim authorities a week ago, Amir Khan Mutaqi connected Tuesday would not springiness a timeframe for however agelong the authorities would beryllium successful spot oregon whether it would yet beryllium opened up to different factions, minorities oregon women.

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When asked astir the anticipation of elections, Mutaqi demanded different countries not interfere successful Afghanistan’s interior issues.

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ROME — Italian Premier Mario Draghi says however Europe treats refugees from Afghanistan volition trial the continent’s integration process.

In remarks Tuesday to an interfaith gathering successful Bologna of participants from the Group of 20 made up of representatives of concern and emerging-market nations, Draghi referred those who precocious fled Afghanistan.

“The European Union indispensable not disregard the play of these persons, nor the historical magnitude of these events,” helium said.

The European Union for years “has been incapable of gathering a communal attack connected the migratory theme, and successful peculiar connected the organisation of who arrives and seeks asylum,” the Italian person said.

Italy, wherever hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers person arrived via traffickers’ boats launched from Libya, has mostly lobbied its EU partners successful vain for years to instrumentality successful galore of the migrants.

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Some EU countries person indicated they wouldn’t judge Afghans who fly their homeland beyond those they evacuated successful the last days of the U.S. subject beingness successful Kabul.

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s premier curate and Russian President Vladimir Putin person discussed the latest concern successful neighboring Afghanistan successful a telephone call.

Imran Khan, who received the telephone Tuesday from Putin, besides exchanged views astir bilateral practice and collaboration successful the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. That's a information pact dominated by Russia and China that besides includes the ex-Soviet Central Asian countries.

According to a authorities statement, Khan “underscored the value of bid and stableness successful Afghanistan for determination information and prosperity.”

It said Khan emphasized the urgent request for humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and the imperative of averting an economical crisis. The connection said Khan besides underlined the request for the planetary assemblage to stay engaged successful Afghanistan.

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It said Khan stressed that adjacent coordination and consultations betwixt Pakistan and Russia connected the evolving concern successful Afghanistan were of important importance.

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