Afghanistan's 38 million people face a desperate humanitarian crisis. Read more at straitstimes.com.
will place huge strains on efforts to get food into neighbouring Afghanistan to relieve its catastrophic humanitarian crisis, the United Nations warned on Friday.
"We're focused absolutely on the needs of the people in Pakistan right now, but the ramifications of what we're experiencing here go wider," WFP Pakistan country director Chris Kaye said. "WFP has procured over 320,000 metric tonnes in the past year to support operations in Afghanistan. The floods in Pakistan are going to put a huge dent in that capability."
A further issue was that the wheat harvest was being stored in flooded areas of Pakistan, and"a large proportion of the wheat has been washed away".
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