World Food Programme Issues A Budget Warning For Afghanistan

The World Food Programme (WFP) has indicated that one billion dollars are needed to avert a humanitarian calamity in Afghanistan.

In addition, the organization asserted that it can provide food assistance to one out of every 10 Afghan individuals in need.

On Wednesday, the organization issued another warning about the budget gap in Afghanistan via its social networking site X.

According to World FoodProgramme, 10 million Afghans have been denied humanitarian aid this year.

Furthermore, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlighted in its most recent report the decline and discontinuation of health care for those in need in Afghanistan owing to budget shortages.

It is worth noting that the World Food Program previously stated that one billion dollars are required to assist 21 million people, and over 20 million Afghans are at risk of hunger.

As poverty and hunger intensify, many humanitarian organizations have warned of funding cuts and a developing humanitarian calamity in Afghanistan. So yet, just about USD 1 billion of the required USD 3.23 billion in humanitarian aid has been provided.

With the Taliban’s return to power following the US and NATO exit in August 2021, Afghanistan, a country highly reliant on aid, lost Western donor backing. The Afghan economy collapsed quickly, forcing self-sufficient Afghans to seek humanitarian aid in order to survive.

The Taliban regime has faced international isolation as a result of numerous human rights violations.

Notably, with the Taliban’s comeback in Afghanistan in August 2021, the country’s educational system has suffered a huge setback. As a result, girls’ education has been restricted, and seminaries or religious schools have steadily filled the void left by schools and colleges.

Women in Afghanistan have encountered various hurdles since the Taliban retook control in 2021. In a war-torn country, girls and women have no access to school, jobs, or public spaces.

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