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September 27 – The Afghan embassy in London closes down following an "official request" by the United Kingdom's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, according to Ambassador Zalmai Rassoul. However, the FCO says that the decision to close the embassy was made by the "State of Afghanistan".
World Food Program gave the largest UN aid to Afghanistan which amounted to $280,000,000 in fiscal year 2024. [4] Other UN agencies gave lesser amounts. According to a March 2024 publication by ProPublica based on a SIGAR report, the U.N. handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan since the Taliban arrived at the helm in August 2021. [5]
The 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes are a series of ongoing armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The conflict also separately includes the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and Pakistani Taliban .
Afghanistan faced a humanitarian crisis in late 2023. [252] On 10 November 2024, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry confirmed that Taliban representatives would attend the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, marking the first time the country participated since the Taliban's return to power in 2021. Afghanistan had been barred from ...
In August 2024, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov made a working visit to Kabul, the highest-ranking foreign leader to do so since the Taliban retook power. [43] In October 2024, Oybek Usmonov, Uzbekistan's former deputy foreign minister and ambassador to Pakistan, was appointed as ambassador to Afghanistan. [44]
Subsequently, the year 2023 and 2024 have been deadliest year for Pakistan since Pakistan launched Operation Azm-e-Istehkam in regions bordering Afghanistan. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The decade long anti-terrorism military campaigns resulted in major achievements for Pakistan till 2020 under its counter-terrorism strategy encompassed under National Action ...
Events in the year 2023 in Afghanistan.. According to the United Nations Development Programme, by 2022, 97% of Afghans could fall under the poverty threshold, which would plunge the country into a major humanitarian crisis and famine approaching the capital Kabul and other major towns and cities in Afghanistan, where millions of Afghan people starved to death, hundreds of thousands of more ...
Since 6 March 2024, unusually heavy rains and resulting flash flooding in Afghanistan and Pakistan killed over 1,000 people, and injured many more. [8] [9] [failed verification] The flooding extensively damaged infrastructure and agriculture as well. [9] [10] [11]