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United Nations agencies and their humanitarian partners are racing against time to deliver life-saving aid and supplies to crisis-hit Afghans ahead of winter, a UN agency said on Thursday.
“In September, more than 3.8 million people received food assistance, 21,000 children aged 6-59 months and 10,000 women received treatment for acute malnutrition, 32,000 people received non-food items including blankets and warm clothes for winter,” the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan said in a statement.
Following the Taliban’s takeover in mid-August, the security situation remained generally calm across the Central Asian country. Millions of people in Afghanistan have been deeply affected by decades of conflict and displacement, chronic poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic, a severe drought, a failing health system, and an economy on the brink of collapse, the OCHA said.
“At the beginning of 2021, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan was already one of the worst in the world, with nearly half of the population-some 18.4 million people-in need of humanitarian assistance,” it added.
