The World Food Program (WFP) said Monday that Afghanistan is facing the “worst” humanitarian crisis on earth and that 95 percent of the people don’t have enough food.
In an interview with the BBC, David Beasley, Executive Director of the WFP, said: “It is as bad as you possibly can imagine. In fact, we are now looking at the worst humanitarian crisis on earth. 95 percent of the people don’t have enough food,” he said.
Beasley stated that as many as 23 million people are marching towards starvation and “out of that almost nine million are knocking on famine’s door.”
He emphasized that the next six months are going to be “catastrophic.”
“The winter months are coming. We are coming out of drought the next six months are going to be catastrophic,”
Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) says that the government is working on a mechanism to help vulnerable families.
Ahmadullah Wasiq, Deputy IEA spokesman, stated: “We are working on a mechanism to provide people with wheat in exchange for work and cash to needy people in order to solve the issue as soon as possible.”
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