Four years since August 2021, peace in Afghanistan has meant a formal conclusion to war, but not to its consequences. Four years have passed since the international community withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021. In this time, the country has witnessed: The deepening of a profound economic crisis The population’s continued impoverishment amidst widespread unemployment…

Today, 7 April 2025, is World Health Day. While we celebrate the major medical strides made in the last decades, we also recognise that access to healthcare is under threat worldwide. We must advance every individual’s right to health. Over 18 months of war in Gaza, more than 700 attacks have impacted health facilities or…

“I was playing with some kids. I picked up a mine with my hands. The bomb exploded.” Nasratullah, 10 years old, lost two fingers to a landmine. More than a quarter of Afghanistan remains contaminated by landmines, IEDs, cluster munitions—the explosive remnants left behind by decades of war. At EMERGENCY’s hospitals across the country, we continue to…