Afghanistan: As Conflict Spreads, Chronic Displacement becomes a Powderkeg in Afghanistan

Apr 9, 2018 | Ruchi Kumar, IRIN
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Afghanistan’s Khogyani District is among hundreds of patchwork settlements that have proliferated throughout Afghanistan over the last five years, fed by a steady surge of people uprooted by an intensifying conflict and others pushed back from neighbouring countries. The displaced and the returnees throng together in swelling districts like Behsud, which curves around urban Jalalabad. In settlements spreading over once-barren land, people live clustered in tents, hastily built structures, or under the open sky.