Anonymousabout 10 hours ago
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake on April 3, 2026 killed at least 12 people in Afghanistan, striking a country already reeling from ten days of flooding that left 77 dead and destroyed nearly 800 homes across 18 provinces. The twin disasters compound an existing humanitarian emergency in which 21.9 million Afghans—45 percent of the population—require assistance, international aid funding has dropped from $3.8 billion in 2022 to under $1 billion, and the Taliban government lacks the institutional capacity to mount an adequate response.