{"id":20925,"date":"2024-06-03T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=20925"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:34:37","slug":"wfp-reiterates-urgent-need-for-14-5-mln-to-assist-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/06\/wfp-reiterates-urgent-need-for-14-5-mln-to-assist-flood-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP reiterates urgent need for $14.5 mln to assist flood victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has emphasized that it requires $14.5 million over the next seven months to address the needs of the flood-affected people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its official X account on Monday, the WFP stated that it has provided assistance to over 65,000 Afghan citizens in the areas most affected by the recent floods in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The WFP had previously said that the devastating floods in Afghanistan would exacerbate food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, many provinces including Baghlan, Takhar, Ghor, Faryab, Badakhshan, Badghis, Bamyan, Herat, and Samangan have witnessed deadly and ruinous floods.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, WFP announced that the recent floods over the past weeks have affected 80,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures from the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), hundreds of people have lost their lives or been injured as a result of these floods, and 15,000 homes and thousands of jeribs of the farmlands have been destroyed.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has emphasized that it requires $14.5 million over the next seven months to address the needs of the flood-affected people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":20927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,9,984,194,30,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-soceity","category-news","category-world","category-environment","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":47,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925","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=20925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20931,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925\/revisions\/20931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}