RASC News Agency: The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it distributed 2,500 metric tons of legumes to more than 700,000 people across Afghanistan over the past year. In a statement posted on X on Monday, February 10, the UN agency confirmed that this humanitarian assistance was facilitated through collaboration with the European Union, Germany, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Despite ongoing relief efforts, the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan continues to deepen. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) previously reported that nearly 23 million Afghanistanis require urgent assistance, yet WFP warns that due to severe funding shortages, it will only be able to support half of those in need in 2025.
International organizations have consistently highlighted Afghanistan’s catastrophic economic decline over the past three years, with extreme poverty becoming increasingly widespread. WFP reports that more than three-quarters of the Afghanistani population are unable to afford a nutritionally adequate diet, leaving millions at risk of malnutrition and starvation. Ironically, while Afghanistan grapples with one of the worst humanitarian crises in its history, the Taliban continues to receive millions of dollars in international aid from both Western and Eastern sources. However, rather than improving the lives of ordinary citizens, these funds have primarily served to enrich the group’s leadership. Taliban officials and senior commanders reside in opulent estates, receive their salaries in U.S. dollars, and are engaged in widespread financial exploitation.
Reports indicate that over the past three and a half years, Taliban commanders both in urban centers and rural strongholds have taken multiple wives, a practice emblematic of their unchecked power and privilege. As Afghanistan sinks deeper into economic despair, the ruling elite remains preoccupied with consolidating wealth and expanding personal influence, while millions of Afghanistanis endure unprecedented hardship.
