Save the Children: Extreme Weather Displaces 38,000 People Across Afghanistan Since January

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Save the Children reports that extreme weather events displaced at least 38,000 people across Afghanistan in the first six months of 2024, with half of them being children.

In a report released on Tuesday, August 6, the international humanitarian agency stated that displacement in the first half of this year due to droughts, extreme temperatures, floods, landslides, and storms exceeded that of all of 2023.