Lack of funds will hit food aid for 3.2m
Monday 27 June 2011
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EmailThe UN World Food Programme announced today that it will cut food assistance to more than three million Afghan citizens in about half the occupied country's 34 provinces because of a shortage of money from donor states.
The UN agency said it had planned to help feed more than seven million people in Afghanistan this year through meals provided at schools and training and work programmes, but the lack of funds means only 3.8 million people will receive aid.
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