{"id":20246,"date":"2024-05-05T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=20246"},"modified":"2024-05-05T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:58:40","slug":"wfp-provides-assistance-to-over-8-mln-afghans-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/05\/wfp-provides-assistance-to-over-8-mln-afghans-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP provides assistance to over 8 mln Afghans in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has announced that it has assisted over 8 million Afghan citizens in the first three months of 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The assistance provided includes food items, cash, and educational services, as WFP stated on its official X account on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>WFP has repeatedly announced that it requires $657 million to continue its operations in Afghanistan for the next months.<\/p>\n<p>It is while international aid to Afghanistan has fallen short of the required amount, highlighting the urgent need for sustained humanitarian assistance in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite efforts to secure funding, only 7.8% of the requested $3.6 billion for lifesaving aid in Afghanistan has been received, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).<\/p>\n<p>Lately, OCHA stated the humanitarian aid in Afghanistan has been reduced due to the lack of more funds.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has announced that it has assisted over 8 million Afghan citizens in the first three months of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,1,9,194,200,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-0_swnen","category-soceity","category-world","category-democracy-human-rights","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":55,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20252,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions\/20252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}