Since the beginning of May, more than 50 of Afghanistan’s 370 districts have fallen to the Taliban, most of which surround provincial capitals, according to Deborah Lyons, the UN’s top diplomat in Afghanistan.
All main trends in Afghanistan, including politics, the economy, security, the humanitarian emergency, and COVID-19, are negative or stagnant, according to the Head of the UN Mission in Afghanistan, who spoke at a high-level virtual meeting of the Security Council today (22 June).She claimed that the Afghan people’s perseverance is being put to the test, and that the country’s vulnerability to disaster is apparent.
According to the UN Special Representative, the February 2020 agreement between the US and the Taliban sparked hope that it would pave the way for Afghans to find peace, but actions on the battlefield have outpaced efforts at the talking table.
The UN representative in Afghanistan stated that there is still time, however limited, to avoid the worst-case scenario from occurring. She stated that everyone must make a concerted effort now to prevent the country from devolving into a bloodbath. She went on to say that the only way for Afghanistan to move forward is to return to the negotiating table and away from the battlefield.
Survivors say that twenty-five years ago this week,(April 17, 1999),Serbian forces massacred 53 Albanians in the Kosovar village of Poklek, including 24 children. It was.It was one of the worst massacres of the war in Kosovo.
Three people severely burned in an explosion at a shop in Bangladesh earlier this week had to be taken for treatment 18 miles (29 km) away to the capital Dhaka because there were no health facilities in Savar, the site of the blaze.
Permanent Representative of Israel,Gilad Erdan to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question
An ethnic armed group intercepted a junta retaliation near the Thai-Myanmar border on Thursday, according to an announcement from rebel forces.
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam suffered severe damage from Russian shelling in late March. For residents of Zaporizhzhia and those living up and downstream, the attack on the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station and dam poses a challenge.
Nearly four dozen members of the Burmese junta-affiliated Border Guard Police and soldiers have fled to Bangladesh since Tuesday night amid intensifying fighting between junta troops and Arakan Army rebels in neighboring Rakhine state, officials said.
The fighting in the Northeast African nation of Sudan is still going on, but worldwide donors have promised more than $2.13 billion in humanitarian relief, and the UN said this week that a looming famine is about to break out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.