The US had frozen the supply of funds to the country after the Taliban takeover in August.
Donors have agreed to transfer $US280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program and UNICEF to support nutrition and health in Afghanistan, the World Bank said as it seeks to help a country facing famine and economic free fall.
A child stands outside her home in a neighbourhood where many internally displaced people have been living for years, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday.The money aims to support food security and health programs in Afghanistan as it sinks into a severe economic and humanitarian crisis that accelerated in Augustas the Western-backed government collapsed and the last US troops withdrew.
The United Nations is warning that nearly 23 million people – about 55 per cent of the population – are facing extreme levels of hunger, with nearly 9 million at risk of famine as winter takes hold in the impoverished, landlocked country. A boy pushes a wheelbarrow with canisters and his younger brother, on their way to collect water from a stagnant pool about 3 kilometres from their home in Kamar Kalagh village outside Herat, Afghanistan.
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