15 Aug 2022

Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis a year on from US withdrawal

From First Up, 5:12 am on 15 August 2022

It's been exactly one year since Taliban troops rolled in to Kabul to take control in Afghanistan Afghanistan's economy collapsed almost overnight, and with the world's media and international agencies now largely absent, the humanitarian crisis still occuring is easily overlooked. Someone who is witness to the deprivation currently facing many Afghans is Asuntha Charles, national director of World Vision Afghanistan. Nathan Rarere asked her what the scale of the crisis is at the moment.