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Afghan economic meltdown would be gift for terrorists: UN chief
short by Athira Sasidharan / on Saturday, 11 September, 2021
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world to keep money flowing into Afghanistan to avoid an economic meltdown. The economic crisis would spark a "catastrophic" situation for the Afghan people and be a "gift for terrorist groups", he added. "At the present moment the UN is not even able to pay its salaries to its own workers," he further said.