{"id":4882,"date":"2017-10-10T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4882-red-cross-to-scale-down-humanitarian-efforts-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T10:48:30","slug":"red-cross-to-scale-down-humanitarian-efforts-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4882-red-cross-to-scale-down-humanitarian-efforts-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross to scale down humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross has decided to \u201cdrastically\u201d reduce the number of its relief workers in Afghanistan after seven of its employees were killed in attacks earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>The International Committee of the Red Cross has decided to \u201cdrastically\u201d reduce the number of its relief workers in Afghanistan after seven of its employees were killed in attacks earlier this year.<\/h4>\n<h4>The humanitarian organization said on Monday the decision was prompted by growing dangers facing its aid workers, who have increasingly fallen victim to militancy in Afghanistan over the past years.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cWe have no choice but to drastically reduce our presence and activities in Afghanistan,\u201d Monica Zanarelli, the ICRC head in Afghanistan, told reporters.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cExposure to risk has become our greater challenge in Afghanistan, and we know that zero risk doesn\u2019t exist and we are not aiming at that, but our security has to be guaranteed by every party,\u201d she said.<\/h4>\n<h4>The humanitarian group will close its facilities in the northern city of Maimana, the capital of Faryab Province, and in Kunduz Province, also in the north and a hotbed of Taliban militant activity.<\/h4>\n<h4>The group has suffered a series of deadly attacks in northern Afghanistan, where Taliban and Daesh militants have intensified their assaults on police and troops.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross has decided to \u201cdrastically\u201d reduce the number of its relief workers in Afghanistan after seven of its employees were killed in attacks earlier this year. \u00a0 The International Committee of the Red Cross has decided to \u201cdrastically\u201d reduce the number of its relief workers in Afghanistan after seven &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,865,670,44],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-daesh","tag-kill","tag-taliban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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