Countrywide Conflict Displacement
This year, more than 126,000 people have fled their homes due to conflict in Afghanistan. This is 28 per cent less compared to the same period in the previous year, in which 173,000 people were displaced. Displacements this year have reached the majority of the country, with displacements being registered in 29 out of 34 provinces.
Central: Since January, 7,744 people have been displaced in the central region, 6 per cent of the total displacement country-wide.
Northern/North Eastern: In Khwajasabzposh district, Faryab, approximately 3,500 people reportedly have been newly displaced by conflict. Armed clashes also continued in Emamsaheb district, Kunduz. Some 7,000 people are reported to have been displaced. Partners have reached out to local elders in order to gain access to families displaced in areas controlled by NSAG. Since January, over 57,000 people have been displaced in the north and north-eastern regions, 45 per cent of the total displacements country-wide this year.
Eastern: Clashes between NSAGs in Pachieragam District,
Nangarhar, reportedly forced some 7,000 people from their homes in four villages. Provincial authorities called for a crisis meeting on 10 June and OCHA is coordinating the efforts of reaching and assessing the displaced families. In 2017, more than 5,500 people have been displaced in the region, 6 per cent of all displaced people in the country this year.
Southern: Clashes continued between ANSF and NSAG in the region. No significant new displacements have been reported.
Since January, more than 35,000 people have been displaced in southern and southeastern regions, 27 per cent of the total displaced people in Afghanistan this year.
Western: NSAG reportedly increased their activities in Farah, including establishing a number of illegal checkpoints along the highway connecting Hirat and Farah districts. This year, more than 11,300 people have been displaced in the western region.
They account for 9 per cent of the total of people displaced in Afghanistan since January.
Refugees and Returnees
A total of 1,091 undocumented Afghans spontaneously returned or were deported from Pakistan and 4,426 undocumented Afghans arrived from Iran. This is a decrease of 42 per cent, and 24 per cent respectively, compared to the previous week.
Since beginning of the year, 68,052 undocumented Afghans have returned to the country from Pakistan and 150,166 from Iran.
According to the most recent figures available, over 32,000 refugees returned from Pakistan under UNHCR’s repatriation programme, as of 3 June. Just over 290 Afghan refugees returned from Iran, by the same date, since January 2017.
Ongoing Response Activities*
Central: In Logar, over 300 members of undocumented returnee-families received cash assistance via IRC. In Khost, 16,100
Pakistani refugees in Gulan camp received food from WFP. In
**Jaghuri, DACAAR completed more than 50 latrines for displaced families and started water trucking to new displacement sites.
North/North Eastern: Over 700 people in Kunduz received non-conditional cash assistance from NRC to support them with food, fuel, transportation or rent. In addition, DACAAR and SCI supplied them with emergency household items and hygiene kits. In Jawzjan, 392 people affected by flooding received food and emergency household items from IOM and SCI.
Eastern: Over 950 members of displaced, vulnerable families were assisted in Nangarhar and Laghman provinces with food, emergency household items, hygiene kits or cash. In Jalalabad city, 1,050 members of undocumented returnee families received cash for food from WFP. At border crossings with Pakistan, IOM, UNICEF, UNHCR and their partner AADA, provided more than 240 children with Vitamin-A-supplementation or deworming and more than 130 children were screened for malnutrition. Some 40 women attended a three-day emergency-preparedness/DRR training in Mehtarlam, Laghman, conducted by IMC/DoWA. Another 40 community volunteers were trained by IMC on the same subjects in Rodat district, Nangarhar province.
Southern: Over 400 displaced households received emergency assistance in Shajoy, Zabul, and Tirinkot, Uruzgan, from DACAAR, NRC, SCI, UNICEF, UNHCR and WFP.
Western: More than 880 displaced people received cash, WASH supplies, emergency household items or food in Hirat City, Farah City and in Baghdis Province from CRDSA, DACAAR, DRC, NRC and WFP. In Baghdis, IRC also provided hygiene promotion and chlorination for 28 families.
Access Constraints and Security Incidents
Central: In the capital Kabul, demonstrators installed over half a dozen tents at junctions across the city and are calling for resignation of senior Government officials over the deteriorating security situation in the city. The ongoing demonstrations and lock down by ANSF negatively impact aid delivery to displaced communities scattered across the city and assessments have been reportedly delayed in three outlying districts of the capital.
Access to Ghazni and Paktika provinces from Kabul are hampered due to illegal checkpoints and attacks by NSAG on ANSF that could also affect civilian and NGO vehicles.
Western: In Farah city, acts of intimidation have been registered against staff from a health facility run by an NGO, not to hire female staff. Reportedly, a grenade was thrown into the premises.