The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a report said that Afghanistan has 6.3 million internally displaced people who are facing long-term displacement.
OCHA called the current situation worrying and said that Afghanistan has the second most internally displaced people in the world.
It also stated in the report that many of these internally displaced people have left their homes in the last decade.
The report said: “Currently about 6.3 million individuals—one in seven Afghans—face long-term displacement, with many having left their homes over a decade ago. This is the largest number of internally displaced people in South Asia and the second largest worldwide.”
About 800 internally displaced families live in the Sarsabzi square of Kabul (4th PD) of Kabul.
Shukrya, who lives in this area with her six children, said that they were given 20 days to leave.
Shukrya said: "We have been living here for about 18 or 19 years, now they forced us to leave, we don’t know where to go."
"We live in this tent. When it rains, water comes under the tent. There are seven people in our family and we don't have any breadwinner,” said Adela, another displaced person.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said that the conditions for the return of internally displaced people to their original provinces have been provided.
Earlier, MoRR provided numbers saying there are 3 million internally displaced people in the country, one million of whom have been transferred to their original provinces.
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