Geneva: Almost all Afghans don’t have enough to eat and a failing economy could tip Afghanistanunder increasingly dire situation Taliban United Nations will wreak havoc next year world food program ,wfp) said on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the agency told reporters that WFP surveys showed that an estimated 98% of Afghans are not eating enough, with seven in 10 families resorting to borrowed food, which pushes them into poverty.
The sudden withdrawal of foreign aid following a Taliban victory in August has left Afghanistan’s fragile economy on the verge of collapse, with prices for food, fuel and other basics increasingly out of reach for many.
“The growing economic crisis, conflict and drought mean that the average family can barely cope now,” tomson firik Told at the Geneva briefing. “We have a huge amount of money to prevent this crisis from becoming a catastrophe.”
The WFP has provided food aid to 15 million Afghans so far in 2021 and seven million in November alone. Next year, it plans to increase its aid to 23 million people in all of Afghanistan’s provinces.
“We can’t waste a single moment,” Firi said. “Our country’s directors describe the situation as dire. She says it is an ‘avalanche of hunger and destruction’.”
Separately, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nasif said Afghan families face “severe poverty and hunger”, including child labour, early marriage and “even Many are pushed into desperate measures, including the sale of children”.
A spokesman for the agency told reporters that WFP surveys showed that an estimated 98% of Afghans are not eating enough, with seven in 10 families resorting to borrowed food, which pushes them into poverty.
The sudden withdrawal of foreign aid following a Taliban victory in August has left Afghanistan’s fragile economy on the verge of collapse, with prices for food, fuel and other basics increasingly out of reach for many.
“The growing economic crisis, conflict and drought mean that the average family can barely cope now,” tomson firik Told at the Geneva briefing. “We have a huge amount of money to prevent this crisis from becoming a catastrophe.”
The WFP has provided food aid to 15 million Afghans so far in 2021 and seven million in November alone. Next year, it plans to increase its aid to 23 million people in all of Afghanistan’s provinces.
“We can’t waste a single moment,” Firi said. “Our country’s directors describe the situation as dire. She says it is an ‘avalanche of hunger and destruction’.”
Separately, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nasif said Afghan families face “severe poverty and hunger”, including child labour, early marriage and “even Many are pushed into desperate measures, including the sale of children”.
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