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Posted on 09/01/2025 10:49:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
KABUL, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The shrinking of funding for Afghanistan, led by U.S. aid cuts, was hampering the response on Monday to a powerful earthquake in the east, with dozens of clinics closed and a helicopter out of use, humanitarian officials said.
The magnitude 6 tremor hit overnight, levelling villages, killing at least 800 people and injuring more than 2,800 in remote mountainside areas.
"The actual delivery of response has been badly hit by the funding cuts this year, but also the number of people we have on the ground is much less than we would have had six months ago," said Kate Carey.
Afghanistan has been badly affected since U.S. President Donald Trump's administration in January began funding cuts to its humanitarian arm USAID and aid programs worldwide in what he casts as part of a broader plan to remove wasteful spending.
"Support from the international community is seen as essential," said Abdul Rahman Habib, spokesperson for the Taliban-run Ministry of Economy, noting the fall in funds for food, healthcare, displaced people and communities hit by climate change.
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If God is great they don’t need our help.
They can take a long walk off a short pier.
I’ve not woken up yet entirely but the first time I read that post I though it said: Feeding cats ......
Don’t they make a lot of $ off poppies? They were rotten to us - we shouldn’t give them anything.
“The shrinking of funding for Afghanistan, led by U.S. aid cuts...”
Wait, what? The US taxpayers are paying for Afghanistan grifters?
Inshallah!
They were never short on funds to fight the war, but now they need funds for earthquake monitoring. Yeah, right.
Oh, no!
Where did the Americans go? Where are they when we need them most?
God IS great; allah is NOT.
bttt
They just had to throw that in - Abdul sure knows the right buzz words to use, regardless if he believes it or not.
The Taliban can sell off some of that equipment Biden left behind to help their people.
Let the Taliban figure it out. Their country, right?
Ask the moderator to change the title to that.
As Allah wills it.
Homeland of the Taliban hardest hit.
Let all the rich Arabs pay it.
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