Webdesk: Due to a budget shortfall in the midst of the country’s dire humanitarian situation. The UN World Food Programme has been obliged to reduce rations for four million Afghans this month. It announced in a statement late Friday.
“At least four million people will receive only half of what they require to survive in March,”. The statement stated, adding that the UN food agency urgently needs $93 million to feed 13 million people in Afghanistan.
After the Taliban assumed power in 2021, the already impoverished nation’s economic crisis has worsened. International nations have stopped development funds and imposed banking sanctions.
Moreover, Some officials, including those from the United Nations, have expressed concern. Concern is that donors will pull back on the country’s massive humanitarian aid programme. It is as a result of a series of restrictions on women imposed by the Taliban administration last year. While, Including a December ban on the employment of the majority of Afghan female non-governmental organisation staff.
The cause of the World Food Programme’s March shortfall in financing was not immediately apparent.
The decrease in rations occurs after the conclusion of a particularly severe and dangerous winter.
According to the United Nations, almost 90 percent of Afghans cannot afford enough food.
