Afghanistan excluded from COP28 as climate impacts hit home


  • World
  • Monday, 11 Dec 2023

FILE PHOTO: Afghan kochi nomad women carry water containers on their heads as they walk with a donkey outside of Maidan Shar, the capital of Wardak province, September 8, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Sobhan/File Photo

DUBAI (Reuters) - Humanitarian concerns have been raised over Afghanistan being left out of United Nations climate negotiations for a third year in a row, as the country grapples with worsening drought and floods.

Dozens of people were killed in Afghanistan, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change, after heavy rains triggered flash floods that swept across drought-stricken land earlier this year.

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