In its latest status update on the humanitarian condition of Afghanistan, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan has said that 23 million, i.e., 55% of Afghans, are facing emergency levels of food insecurity.
The situation in Afghanistan in humanitarian terms was already one of the worst in the world before the Taliban takeover on 15th August. Approximately 18.4 million people needed humanitarian assistance by ‘mid-year mark’, i.e., by June.
????Afghanistan Weekly Humanitarian Update
— OCHA Afghanistan (@OCHAAfg) November 5, 2021
➡️Winterisation assessment started in Hilmand
➡️Over 187,000 people receive food assistance in the North-east
➡️Returnees in need of shelter and humanitarian assistance in the West
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The UN also said that the Afghanistan Flash Appeal which aims to raise $606 million targeted at 11 million people, is only 54% funded yet. The press release says: “Since 1 September 2021, the UN agencies and their partners have reached 48,383 children with community-based education activities, supported 82,761 people with emergency shelter and non-food items, and provided 4.1 million people with food assistance.”
The release also says that the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) distributed wheat seed and fertilizer in eastern Afghanistan.
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