As the nation prepares for its second winter under Taliban rule, more Afghans will be fighting for survival as living circumstances worsen in the coming year, a top official of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned in an interview. When the religious organization took control in August 2021, the economy collapsed and Afghanistan underwent a major transformation that left millions of people in poverty and starving to death as foreign help abruptly ceased. “The economic hardship is there. It’s very serious and people will struggle for their lives,” Martin Schuepp, director of operations at the Red Cross, said in an interview late Sunday. Access to international institutions and the foreign funds that financed Afghanistan’s aid-dependent economy prior to the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces have already been hampered by sanctions against the Taliban leadership, a ban on bank transfers, and the freezing of billions in the country’s currency reserves. The Red Cross pays the salary of 10,500 medical personnel in the Afghanistan “Prices are spiking due to […]
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