Overview

• An initial UN assessment of 49 villages found 5,230 homes destroyed and 672 damaged in Afghanistan’s mountainous east.
• The UN says 362 affected villages remain unreachable as landslides, congestion and aftershocks hinder travel on the lone mountain road from Jalalabad to the epicenter.
• Taliban authorities report at least 2,200 dead, and the UN estimates up to 500,000 people affected, more than half of them children including some recently returned from Pakistan and Iran.
• The UN plans to issue an emergency funding appeal on Tuesday; OCHA has released $10 million and WHO has delivered new medical cargo, bringing nearly 80 metric tonnes of health supplies prepositioned.
• Humanitarians warn of an alarming cholera threat where 92% of assessed communities practice open defecation, and they caution that rain, landslides and snow could soon cut off access entirely.