The United Nations' World Food Program on Wednesday appealed for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series…
' World Food Program on Wednesday appealed for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan., said it was helping survivors but it urgently needed more funding because “we are having to take this food from an already severely underfunded program.
The latest quake was centered about 30 kilometers outside the city of Herat, the capital of Herat province, and was 6 kilometers below the surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said., U.N. officials said. The quakes struck during the daytime, when many of the men in the region were working outdoors. The UN body was forced earlier this year to reduce the amount of food families receive and to cut 10 million people in Afghanistan from life-saving food assistance due to a massive funding shortfall.
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