UN warns Afghanistan enters into ‘global poverty’ within a year of Taliban coup

• Afghanistan is expected to achieve immediate “global poverty”, Kanni Wignaraja of the United Nations Development Program said.

• In less than a year, poverty in Afghanistan will reach 97% or 98%, says Wignaraja.

• The Taliban hastily invaded Afghanistan while the US withdrew all troops from the region.

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday said Afghanistan would go to “global poverty” following the Taliban, which has taken the country by storm.

In less than a year, poverty in Afghanistan has risen 97% or 98%, says Kanni Wignaraja, UNDP Asia-Pacific Director, according to Associated Press.

“Afghanistan has been experiencing moderate poverty by next year,” Wignaraja said. “That’s where we’re going – with 97-98% no matter how you apply the idea.”

The Taliban have invaded Afghanistan following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from the region. In his take, the Taliban he was also mentioned in the country for the Muslim Emirate of Afghanistan, a return to the same name that was used during the last days of government rule, in 1996. The regime remained strong until 2001, when the US invaded Afghanistan.

After the US ousted the Taliban from power in 2001, Afghanistan achieved a number of improvements, including the inclusion of a per capita income and a number of years of education, Wignaraja said.

In the two decades since the Taliban’s coup d’état, Afghanistan has achieved huge wealth that is on the verge of collapsing due to political instability. Afghanistan is now facing “local bank interest” over its capture of the Taliban, Wignaraja said. This instability only exacerbates the problem.

The problem is “a disaster for aid and development,” Wignaraja said.

The incidence of poverty in Afghanistan is steadily rising 72%. But without the necessary and economic support, Afghanistan will fall into poverty by the middle of next year, says the AP.

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Biden officials, in an effort to cut down on Taliban finances, have suspended nearly $ 10 billion in the country’s central bank banks. – most of them are said to be maintained by Settlements Bank in New York. This has been criticized as misleading and could ultimately hurt more Afghan people than the Taliban, Shah Mehrabi, head of the board of Da Afghanistan Bank. Bloomberg.

“President Biden is not harming the Taliban or existing governments,” Mehrabi said. “This hurts the people of Afghanistan every day and will force them to live in poverty.”

The Taliban have been shut down by US officials from the acquisition of the barn, Natalie Musumeci of Insider said. And there is “almost no chance“In order for the Taliban to pass the law, a legal and economic expert told Insider.

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