{"id":20637,"date":"2024-05-22T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=20637"},"modified":"2024-05-22T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:26:58","slug":"floods-in-afghanistan-would-exacerbate-food-insecurity-wfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/05\/floods-in-afghanistan-would-exacerbate-food-insecurity-wfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods in Afghanistan &#8216;would exacerbate&#8217; food insecurity: WFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has announced that the recent floods over the past two weeks have affected 80,000 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The organization stated on Wednesday, May 22, via its X social media account, that these devastating floods are likely to increase in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The WFP warned that the floods would further exacerbate food insecurity in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In the past week, provinces such as Baghlan, Takhar, Ghor, Faryab, Badakhshan, Badghis, Bamyan, and Kapisa have witnessed destructive and deadly floods.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) announced on Tuesday that the floods over the past 11 days have resulted in 294 deaths and 266 injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statistics provided by the ministry, nearly 15,000 residential houses have been completely or partially destroyed, and over 6,000 livestock have perished in these floods.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has announced that the recent floods over the past two weeks have affected 80,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,30,8,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-environment","category-governance","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":62,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637","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=20637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20643,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20637\/revisions\/20643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}