Under the previous US-backed government in Kabul, around 43 percent of the South Asian country’s GDP came from foreign aid, according to the World Bank.īut still, as former president Ashraf Ghani admitted July last year, 90 percent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line, with less than $2 daily income.Ī report by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in January this year noted that around 18.4 million people in Afghanistan were in need.īeasley said the frozen funds should be channeled through the agency, in order to be used for management of the crisis. The food crisis, exacerbated by climate change, was dire in Afghanistan even before the Taliban came to power, whose new government has been blocked from accessing assets held overseas. “I don't know how you don't have millions of people, and especially children, dying at the rate we are going with the lack of funding and the collapsing of the economy,” he said. He said children are “going to die” and things are “going to get a lot worse.” In his remarks to Reuters on Monday, Beasley raised an alarm over children’s situation in the war-torn country. But if the drought continues, we will take appropriate measures in the spring,” he added. “Regarding the drought, we hope to have a wet winter.
All worries will be resolved,” Mujahid was quoted as saying by the AFP on Saturday. “We are trying to arrange and distribute, including food and clothing. The food warnings came in the wake of Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid’s recent comments on humanitarian crisis facing the country. UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned of “make or break moment” for Afghanistan, with the economic institutions slowly breaking down in the country.Īccording to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, around 23 million Afghans will be facing “crisis” (IPC Phase 3) or “emergency” (IPC Phase 4) levels of acute food insecurity, unless basic food needs are met. Nearly $10 billion in Afghanistan’s national assets have been held by the US Federal Reserve since the Taliban laid siege to Kabul in August and overthrew the US-backed government. “This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation unless we can step up our life-saving assistance,” he added. “Afghanistan is now among the world's worst humanitarian crises, if not the worst,” Beasley said, warning of a “total disaster” if timely action is not taken. In a statement released on Monday, David Beasley, executive director of the WFP, said the country is “on a countdown to catastrophe.” The World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley told Reuters news agency that 22.8 million people – more than half of Afghanistan’s 39 million population – were facing acute food insecurity and “marching to starvation” compared with 14 million just two months ago. TEHRAN - Millions of people in crisis-stricken Afghanistan are on the brink of starvation with the onset of winter, the UN World Food Program (WFP) has warned.Īccording to the UN, more than half of Afghanistan’s 39 million population is facing acute food insecurity and ‘marching to starvation.’
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