Donors have agreed to release $ 250 million in frozen money from Afghanistan

The World Bank announced that donor countries have agreed to transfer $ 280 million of frozen funds from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Fund to the World Food Program and UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund to support health and nutrition in Afghanistan.

The World Bank, under the auspices of the World Bank, will provide $ 180 million to the World Food Program this year to increase food security and nutrition operations, and $ 100 million to UNICEF to provide essential health services, the World Bank said in a statement, according to Reuters.

“This assistance will enable UNICEF to provide 12.5 million people with essential primary health care and vaccinate one million people, while the World Food Program can help 2.7 million people,” the bank said in a statement. Provide food aid and food facilities for nearly 840,000 mothers and children.

The release of the money is intended to support food security and health programs in Afghanistan because the country is in a severe economic and humanitarian crisis, which is bigger after the Taliban took control of the country and the collapse of the Western-backed government and the withdrawal of the last American troops. شد.

The United Nations warns that some 23 million people, or about 55 percent of Afghanistan’s population, are facing severe hunger and another 9 million are at risk of starvation.