Posted on 09/01/2021 2:09:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Approximately one-third of the country faces "emergency" or "crisis" levels of food insecurity, according to Ramiz Alakbarov, the local UN humanitarian coordinator, per AP.
"The lean winter season is fast approaching, and without additional funding, food stocks will run out at the end of September," Alakbarov said.
The United Nations' World Food Program has donated food to thousands of people, but of the $1.3 billion needed for aid efforts, only 39% has been received, UN officials said per AP.
Following the Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan amid the withdrawal of U.S. troops, the group now controls a country that relies on international aid...
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FOAD, UN
I miss him.
I heard smoking opium keeps one’s appetite suppressed.
If they need to raise some money for food they can bring some of those arms in through our southern border.
Someone can hook them up with the right “retailers” I’m sure.
Maybe the UN should go show the Taliban how to farm
Yahoo is worried about Afghanistan but not South Louisiana.
Priorities
Afghanistan had the last 20 years to get organized enough to feed it’s people. Such a system should have been put in place long ago.
The highly paid military should have fought back against a bunch of cave dwelling goat rapists instead of...you know...instantly giving up.
Too bad western countries are so idiotic that they will take all the refugees they can find because oligarchs hate their own countrymen and want to see western civilization destroyed
Substitute “IEDs” for cookbooks, and we’re on!
Taliban’s problem now.
If they are sent food the Tally Wackers will take it all, the women and children will be left to starve. I despise the idea of food used as a weapon.
Sell some of those 83 billion dollars worth of weapons you have. Maybe biden will buy them back. For food.
No worries, let’s put them all on EBT cards and build some dollar stores.
Swords into plowshares fkers.
Oh China will feed them! They have lots of extra food in China.
We no longer have a will to defend ourselves.
Not our problem anymore.
“Way To Go Joe!” order up a caw-bull air lift yet?
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