INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The new cutoffs in United States emergency food aid could worsen the already widespread hunger in Afghanistan, as the World Food Program
(WFP) can only support half of the impoverished people with just half rations, warned the WFP on Saturday.
As part of its plan to reduce
government deficits, Trumps administration decided in January to freeze all foreign aid for three months, and more recently, to terminate
its emergency food funding to the WFP.
The latest cut, according to the WFP, is amounting to a death sentence for millions of people if
implemented.
Mutinta Chimuka, WFPs acting country director, urged international donors to keep supporting Afghanistan, as the country is
facing the worlds second-largest humanitarian crisis.
According to Chimuka, the agency can provide assistance to barely eight million
Chimuka said that is an estimation based on its optimistic anticipation that we get everything else that we are expecting from other
donors.
To stretch the limited resources, the WFP has been giving a half ration to the impoverished individuals, she added.
The WFP plans to
provide food assistance to two million people to fight against hunger in the future months, but Chimuka expressed her worries given the
limited funding.
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