NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2024
From our Overseas Bureau
Now after a little over 100 days after Nepal was hit by an Earthquake that killed at least 154 people, U.N.I.C.E.F. warned of the continued need for humanitarian aid for about 200,000 people in the hill nation including nearly 70,000 children.
The agency, which is appealing for $14.7 million in support, said that many of the Earthquake survivors have had to spend the Winter in temporary shelters. U.N.I.C.E.F.’s plea for assistance is a sobering reminder of humanitarian emergencies facing South Asia, which have been overlooked amid so many other crises around the world.
Besides Nepal’s recent Earthquake, Pakistan is still grappling with the impacts of wide-spread flooding in 2022 and Afghanistan is suffering a severe drought. Notably, both countries are reeling from the crisis triggered by Islamabad’s decision last November to expel hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants, most of them Afghan refugees.
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