Mazar-e-Sharif, BALKH — Most Afghans still do not have access to clean drinking water despite billions of dollars invested by the international community to supply the nation with a steady supply. Today in Afghanistan, waterborne diseases are common. The levels of diarrhea and dysentery, especially among small children, are at epidemic proportions. As well, a […]
Civilians Displaced By Military Operation In Northeastern Afghanistan
Recently hundreds of Afghan families were displaced from rural areas. Inside one province, they left their houses and moved to the crowded city of Kunduz in Northeastern Afghanistan. Due to military clean-up operations on insecure parts of Kunduz province by local Afghan security forces and rare supporting international air forces, many families are severely displaced. […]