The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that more than half a million Afghans have been freshly displaced by recent fighting and urged the international community for urgent and sustained support to prevent a larger humanitarian crisis
"The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan remains desperate," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement after a three-day visit to the South Asian nation.
"The international community must therefore engage with Afghanistan – and quickly – in order to prevent a much bigger humanitarian crisis that will have not only regional, but global implications." Even before the Taliban took over last month, Grandi said, more than 18 million Afghans, or about half the population, required humanitarian aid.
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