"After four decades of war, #Afghanistan ranks as one of the countries least prepared to face the effects of #ClimateChange, which is spurring extreme weather and warping natural environments.
Foreign aid to Afghanistan has dwindled since the Taliban takeover in 2021, with donors wary of backing a government considered a pariah, leaving poor and climate-vulnerable communities further exposed."
"More than 300 people were killed in #FlashFloods that ripped through multiple Afghan provinces, the UN's World Food Programme said Saturday, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured.
Many people remain missing after heavy rains Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, causing what one aid group described as a "major humanitarian emergency"."
"More than 300 people died last week, according to UN and Taliban officials, after unusually heavy rains devastated scores of villages in the north of [#Afghanistan].
This has left much of the farmland covered in thick mud in a country where 80% of the more than 40 million people depend on agriculture."
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