The United States (US) has contributed 280 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Thursday.
This funding will allow WFP to support more than three million hungry people with life-saving food assistance and treat more than 900,000 malnourished children and women.
WFP said in a statement the funding would also help the agency keep the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) operational.
“Large-scale humanitarian assistance over the past two years has helped pull back millions of Afghans from the brink of starvation and we are now seeing an improvement of the overall food security situation,“ said WFP Country Director Hsiao-Wei Lee.
Earlier, WFP had said it urgently needed 600 million US dollars to continue its operations in Afghanistan for next six months.
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