Afghanistan crisis: Taliban expands ‘food for work’ programme

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Appearing as a UN (UN) has appealed $ 4.4 billion (£ 3.2 billion) in humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan.

The United Nations said funds needed this year because more than half of the country’s population needed.

Afghanistan’s economic and humanitarian crisis has deepened because the Taliban took control of August.

The latest Taliban announcement underlines the financial crisis that swallows the country.

It can also ask questions between the Taliban donors using humanitarian aid to fund their government, even as strict rules remain in place of money into Afghanistan.

However, some humanitarian assistance has continued after the Taliban takeover as a foreign government trying to prevent millions of starvants.

However, assistance was intended to bypass the Afghan government and mostly distributed by international organizations.

Now, wheat which is mostly contributed by India to the US-backed Afghan government previously used by the Taliban to pay around 40,000 10kg wheat workers a day, said the country’s agricultural official.

This program, most of which are used to pay for workers in the capital Kabul, will be expanded throughout the country, they added.

The Taliban has received 18 tons of wheat from Pakistan with a promise of 37 tons again and is in talks with India more than 55 tons more than 55 tons, according to Fazel Bari Fazli, Deputy Minister of Administration and Finance at the Afghan Agriculture Ministry.

He does not say how many new wheat donated can be used to pay workers and how much will be distributed as humanitarian aid.

In recent months, state finances have been hit by a number of major problems such as sanctions placed on Taliban members, the assets of the central bank are frozen, and the suspension of foreign aid, which until last year supported the economy.

The United Nations highlighted that, above a series of crisis the country had suffered, Afghanistan is now in the midst of one of the worst droughts in decades.

Meanwhile, the Biden government said it would provide $ 308 million in humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people.

This brings the total number of US assistance for Afghan and Afghan refugees in the region to almost $ 782 million since October.

The White House said the assistance was aimed at alleviating suffering caused by pandemics and “drought, malnutrition, and winter”.