BERLIN (Germany) : The UN chief of the World Food Program (WFP) has again expressed concern over this. Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan And said Afghan people have resorted to selling their children and parts of their bodies to survive.
WFP chief David Beasley has once again urged the international community to accelerate aid delivery to Afghanistan as more than half of the country’s population is starving.
Afghanistan is grappling with drought, pandemics, economic collapse and the effects of years of conflict. About 24 million people face acute food insecurity. More than half of the population will be facing famine this winter and 97 per cent of the population may fall below the poverty line this year.
“Afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world, for at least 20 years, with conflict TalibanBeasley told Deutsche Welle (DW), a German public state-owned international broadcaster.
“And what we are facing now is catastrophic. The number of people knocking on the door of starvation is 23 million out of 40 million people,” he said.
In an interview with DW, Beasley revealed the case of a woman he found in Afghanistan who was forced to sell her daughter to another family in the hope that they could feed her better.
Although the US and allies left the country in August last year, several international charities and aid groups remain to support the local people and ease the growing humanitarian situation in the country.
Beasley called on the world’s richest people to help solve the current hunger crisis. “During this COVID experience, the world’s billionaires have made unprecedented money. Over $5.2 billion [EUR4.67 billion] Increase in net worth per day. We only need a day’s increase in his net worth to address his short-term woes,” he said.
Special Representatives and Special Envoys from the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, the UK and the US met in Oslo on 24 January to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, including sessions with Taliban representatives and civil society actors Were.
In a joint statement, Western envoys stressed the urgent need to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and highlighted the steps needed to help mitigate the crisis. the suffering of the afghans across the country.
The participants recognized the steps taken to ease access for humanitarian workers, male and female, as well as expressed concern that there were still some barriers, and that the participants were able to expedite all the conditions and barriers to the delivery of humanitarian aid. Reiterated the importance of doing away with, the statement added.
WFP chief David Beasley has once again urged the international community to accelerate aid delivery to Afghanistan as more than half of the country’s population is starving.
Afghanistan is grappling with drought, pandemics, economic collapse and the effects of years of conflict. About 24 million people face acute food insecurity. More than half of the population will be facing famine this winter and 97 per cent of the population may fall below the poverty line this year.
“Afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world, for at least 20 years, with conflict TalibanBeasley told Deutsche Welle (DW), a German public state-owned international broadcaster.
“And what we are facing now is catastrophic. The number of people knocking on the door of starvation is 23 million out of 40 million people,” he said.
In an interview with DW, Beasley revealed the case of a woman he found in Afghanistan who was forced to sell her daughter to another family in the hope that they could feed her better.
Although the US and allies left the country in August last year, several international charities and aid groups remain to support the local people and ease the growing humanitarian situation in the country.
Beasley called on the world’s richest people to help solve the current hunger crisis. “During this COVID experience, the world’s billionaires have made unprecedented money. Over $5.2 billion [EUR4.67 billion] Increase in net worth per day. We only need a day’s increase in his net worth to address his short-term woes,” he said.
Special Representatives and Special Envoys from the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, the UK and the US met in Oslo on 24 January to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, including sessions with Taliban representatives and civil society actors Were.
In a joint statement, Western envoys stressed the urgent need to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and highlighted the steps needed to help mitigate the crisis. the suffering of the afghans across the country.
The participants recognized the steps taken to ease access for humanitarian workers, male and female, as well as expressed concern that there were still some barriers, and that the participants were able to expedite all the conditions and barriers to the delivery of humanitarian aid. Reiterated the importance of doing away with, the statement added.
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