 And the world should urgently provide a promised aid to Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency said on Saturday. The agency is warning that the lack of resources is hampering efforts to avert an economic crisis that could push fresh flows of refugees to its neighbors and beyond. And since the Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, the country has seen its economy all but collapse. And most of the nation's international assistance has been cut off, though there are exceptions for humanitarian aid. Billions of dollars in central bank assets held abroad have also been frozen, which has put pressure on the banking system. The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan remains really dire. Afghanistan has a population of 40 million, which are still in the country, Afghans who are living there. Half of them, nearly 20 million, even before the events of 15 August, were relying on humanitarian support. And we have seen that this year, during 2021 so far, nearly 700,000 Afghans have been displaced just this year. And this kind of takes the total of displaced people that are only affected by conflict to 3.5 million. So we are now in a race against time to help and support vulnerable desperate Afghans. And winter is just around the corner. Our fear is if they are not helped as soon as possible, the consequences of this could be really, really worrying and more problematic.