{"id":29981,"date":"2026-06-02T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29981"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:24:45","slug":"ocha-widening-funding-gap-threatens-humanitarian-aid-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/06\/ocha-widening-funding-gap-threatens-humanitarian-aid-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"OCHA: Widening funding gap threatens humanitarian aid in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan has warned that a widening funding gap threatens the continuation of life-saving humanitarian assistance across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Tuesday (June 2), OCHA said that only 16% ($269 million) of the $1.71 billion requested to address humanitarian needs in Afghanistan this year has been received.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA warned that without immediate support, millions of people risk being left without assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The agency had previously reported that 21.9 million people in Afghanistan would require humanitarian assistance this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan has warned that a widening funding gap threatens the continuation of life-saving humanitarian assistance across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,979,6],"tags":[12,727,761,1934],"class_list":["post-29981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-ocha","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-funding-gap"],"views":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29981","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29987,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29981\/revisions\/29987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}