{"id":169752,"date":"2021-08-22T00:17:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=169752"},"modified":"2021-08-22T00:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:47:38","slug":"un-food-agency-hunger-spreading-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/22\/un-food-agency-hunger-spreading-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN food agency: Hunger spreading in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rome, Aug 20 (AP) The UN food agency says it has been able to negotiate access with the Taliban to distribute aid in one provincial capital in Afghanistan but hasn&#8217;t been able to resume food deliveries to three other provincial capitals it supplies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Food Program, headquartered in Rome, has said that some 14 million people are facing severe hunger in the nation of some 39 million. A second drought in three years, combined with fighting, had afflicted Afghanistan even before the Taliban takeover of the country on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andrew Patterson, WFP&#8217;s deputy country director, told The Associated Press on Friday that after Faizabad, a provincial capital in the north, fell to the Taliban last week, the agency&#8217;s field office succeeded in negotiating access with the local Taliban command, and we had (a food) truck on the road the next day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Patterson said the situation in Kandahar, Herat and Jalalabad so far hasn&#8217;t allowed the U.N. agency to resume distributing food in those areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to WFP estimates, some 2 million children are malnourished in Afghanistan. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, Aug 20 (AP) The UN food agency says it has been able to negotiate access with the Taliban to distribute aid in one provincial capital in Afghanistan but hasn&#8217;t been able to resume food deliveries to three other provincial capitals it supplies. The World Food Program, headquartered in Rome, has said that some 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}