Food supplies may run low in Afghanistan this month

Food supplies may run low in Afghanistan this month. This was said on Wednesday by local humanitarian aid coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov. According to Alakbarov, a third of 38 million Afghans are at risk of food shortages. The World Food Program (WFP) has provided food for tens of thousands of people in recent weeks, but has only 39 percent of the $ 1.3 billion it needs for Afghanistan. "Winter is fast approaching and without more money, food supplies will run out at the end of September," Alakbarov said. According to him, the cost of ensuring sufficient food increases with the approaching winter and due to the drought. Afghanistan now controls the radical Taliban movement, which has not yet formed a government. The AP recalls that the movement must run a country that is heavily dependent on foreign aid and in which the economic crisis is deteriorating. Officials have not been paid for several months, the local currency is losing value and most of the foreign exchange reserves are abroad and are now frozen. It is not yet clear whether the Taliban will return to the draconian form of its rule from 1996 to 2001, or whether it will be more moderate. Teaching should continue for both boys and girls, but teaching should be separate. When women are on the streets, their heads are veiled, but most of them do not wear burqas covering their entire bodies, as the Taliban has demanded in the past. The US military completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday, and military evacuations ended. There are still several thousand Afghans in the country who have worked with the Americans, as well as about 200 citizens of the United States and some other countries. The current Taliban say it wants to have good relations with other countries, including the United States.