Action Against Hunger and Gasole invite you to a conference hosted by Dr. Pierre Micheletti, president of Action Against Hunger France Thursday, February 3, at 6:00 p.m. on the Aix-en-Provence campus (lecture hall D001)
"Conflict, climate, COVID-19 in the deadly equation of hunger: the case of Afghanistan".
The aftermath of World War II turned Afghanistan into one of the violent epicenters of the Cold War, with the entry in 1979 of the Red Army, whose officers were convinced that this would be a short regional police operation in a vassal state.
Ronald Reagan wanted to turn it into the "Red Army Tomb," along with the most expensive post-war operation for the CIA, and he succeeded.
In the aftermath of the attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001, a new military intervention was launched by an international coalition led by the United States of America. At the time of the international withdrawal, it was estimated that the operation had cost nearly $2 trillion.
Today, as the UN has just called for $5 billion in funding to address the situation, revenues are slow to materialize and are not commensurate with the major risk of famine. This procrastination once again highlights the urgent need, in Afghanistan as in other crisis areas, to overhaul the humanitarian aid funding model.
Free admission. Open to all.
The vaccine passport will be checked for anyone coming from outside.
