UNITED NATIONS
<strong>Afghan ‘future’ requires aid</strong>
The residents of Afghanistan need US$4.4 billion in aid this year, while a further US$623 million is required to support the millions of Afghans sheltering beyond its borders, Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said yesterday. “A full-blown humanitarian catastrophe looms. My message is urgent: Don’t shut the door on the people of Afghanistan,” Griffiths said. “Help us scale up and stave off widespread hunger, disease, malnutrition and ultimately death,” he said. Without the aid package, “there won’t be a future,” he added.
AFGHANISTAN
<strong>Pleas for professor’s release</strong>
Supporters of Kabul University professor Faizullah Jalal, one of the most vocal
At least five people died on May 26 as howling winds and waves the height of double-decker buses belted eastern India in the Covid-stricken country’s second cyclone in as many weeks.