Afghanistan: Agencies launch funding appeal for quake-hit families

adminOctober 13, 2023September 17, 202404 mins

The region was struck by two massive earthquakes on Saturday, followed a series of aftershocks, including a major one on Wednesday that flattened several homes spared by the original quake. Women and children make up over 90 per cent of the victims, according to UN agencies. Disasters compounded Making matters worse, on Thursday, a dust…

First UN aid convoy reaches Syria’s quake-hit northwest since disaster

adminFebruary 9, 2023September 10, 202406 mins

“Aid, life-saving aid, is desperately needed by civilians wherever they are irrespective of borders and boundaries,” he told journalists in Geneva. “We need it urgently, through the fastest, most direct, and most effective routes. They need more of absolutely everything.” According to UN aid coordinating office, OCHA, six trucks carrying “shelter items and non-food item…