Afghanistan: Afghan Land Endangered by Amu River

Jan 23, 2018 | Samiullah Saihoon, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
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Afghan officials are warning that work carried out to shore up the Amu river by countries upstream is causing serious flooding and the destruction of swathes of Afghan land The Amu Darya river, also known as the Oxus, forms 1,200 kilometres of Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Every year, it swallows hundreds of homes and hundreds of thousands of hectares of Afghanistan's land, and local people say the problem is getting worse.