Afghanistan: Less Rain and Snowfall in Afghanistan: High Level of Food Assistance Needed until Early 2019

Jul 30, 2018 | Jelena Bjelica, Afghanistan Analysts Network
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The Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) has reported that in 22 of Afghanistan’s provinces, cumulative rain and snowfall during the ‘wet season’ – October 2017 to May 2018 – was 30 to 60 per cent below average. The northwest of the country has been particularly hard hit. AAN’s Jelena Bjelica (with input from Obaid Ali and Kate Clark) reports on drought and displacement there and looks at the underlying problems – climate change and government neglect.