The report specified that more than 17 million people are suffering from food insecurity in Afghanistan, three million more than last year.

Despite this, the WFP has only received 12% of the funds needed to assist those most affected, the agency’s Director of Food Security, Jean-Martin Bauer, warned this Tuesday at a press conference held digitally from Rome.

The figures come from the latest report on food insecurity in Afghanistan by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).

With the available funds, the WFP can only assist fewer than one million people per month, compared to the six million they aim to reach in the next six months, for which they would need $468 million (€398 million).

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