The World Food Program (WFP) has once again expressed concern over rising hunger and malnutrition in Afghanistan, saying that 95 percent of the country’s population is currently without adequate food.
The program wrote on its Twitter page late on Friday, February 18 that eight out of ten families have lost their income.
The World Food Program (WFP) says families living in cities, especially in Kabul, have been hit hardest by the crisis.
The United Nations says that as household incomes decline and poverty and hunger increase, more people are forced to work in these colder climates and earn less.
A recent survey by Save the Children found that 82 percent of families in Afghanistan had lost their livelihoods since the regime’s change and the fall of the Taliban. Families have sent their children to work.
The organization added that the economic crisis in Afghanistan has pushed up the prices of basic necessities, especially food, and 39 percent of households have told them that they are borrowing food.
This comes after the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said that humanitarian operations must be stepped up to prevent the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan from escalating.
The organization, which provided food aid to 15 million people in Afghanistan in 2021, has now said that by 2022, the number of people in need of food in the country will reach 23 million.
The World Food Program says 220 million a month is needed to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. That means the organization should have 602 billion available by 2022 to help 23 million people in need in the country.
