{"id":232353,"date":"2021-12-12T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T02:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=232353"},"modified":"2021-12-12T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T02:31:44","slug":"donors-back-280m-transfer-for-afghan-food-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/donors-back-280m-transfer-for-afghan-food-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors back $280m transfer for Afghan food, health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WASHINGTON<br \/>\nDonors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and health in Afghanistan, the World Bank said as it seeks to help a country facing famine and economic freefall.<br \/>\nThe World Bank-administered Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund will this year give $180 million to WFP to scale up food security and nutrition operations and $100 million to UNICEF to provide essential health services, the bank said in a statement.<br \/>\nThe money would aim to support food security and health programs in Afghanistan as it sinks into a severe economic and humanitarian crisis that accelerated in August when the Taliban overran the country as the Western-backed government collapsed and the last US troops withdrew.<br \/>\nThe United States and other donors cut off financial aid on which Afghanistan became dependent during 20 years of war and more than $9 billion of the country\u2019s hard currency assets were frozen.<br \/>\nThe United Nations is warning that nearly 23 million people \u2013 about 55 percent of the population \u2013 are facing extreme levels of hunger, with nearly 9 million at risk of famine as winter takes hold in the impoverished, landlocked country.<br \/>\nUsing reconstruction trust fund money and channeling it through the WFP and UNICEF, both part of the UN family, appears to be a way to get funding into the country for basic needs in a manner that does not necessarily implicate US sanctions against the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and health in Afghanistan, the World Bank said as it seeks to help a country facing famine and economic freefall. 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