AVA - UN to cut aid to 21 million people in Afghanistan

United Nations humanitarian warned of a severe aid funding gap for aid to more than 21 million people in Afghanistan.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA)_Monitoring, The 3.2 billion U.S. dollar plea to aid almost half of the Afghan population has received less than 25% of its funding more than halfway through the year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

“We face critical funding gaps amounting to 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, with many programs already ended or considerably scaled back due to insufficient resources and aid pipelines at risk of imminent rupture, including for food assistance,” OCHA said.

Earlier on 31 July, the organization said in a statement that more than halfway through the year, the 2023 Afghanistan Humanitarian response plan (HRP) remains severely underfunded, with only $744 million received as of 31 July, less than half the amount ($1.49 billion ) at the same time in 2022.