The organization stated in a message on its social media platform X, on Sunday, February 18th, that these aids were distributed with the support of the CBPF institution.

Previously, the World Food Programme, a United Nations agency, had stated that they distributed specific malnutrition supplies to over 4 million women and children in Afghanistan.

This comes as the rates of malnutrition among women and children in Afghanistan have increased, becoming a serious concern.

Both the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have consistently warned about the high levels of malnutrition in Afghanistan.

According to OCHA’s report, approximately 15.5 million people are facing acute food insecurity, with 2.7 million of them in emergencies.

The committee emphasizes that in the coming year, climate change, economic pressures, increased impunity, and reduced international support will accelerate humanitarian crises worldwide.

This comes as human rights organizations have consistently emphasized the need to address poverty and hunger among women and children in Afghanistan.

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Even though the delivery of aid resumed after the federal government declared a unilateral ceasefire in March, malnutrition rates have “skyrocketed” and are expected to worsen, the United Nations agency said in an assessment on Thursday.

Services such as banking and telecommunications were cut in Tigray, home to around 5.5 million people, days after the national army and allied forces pulled out a year ago. They are yet to be restored, hampering the ability of people to buy food, the WFP said.

Half of the pregnant or lactating women in Tigray are malnourished, as well as a third of children under five, leading to stunting and maternal death, the report found.

Food aid

Across Tigray and the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara, also affected by the war, an estimated 13 million people need food aid, a 44 percent increase from the previous WFP report released in January.

The United Nations said that since April 1 only 1,750,000 liters of fuel had entered Tigray, less than 20 percent of the monthly humanitarian needs in the region if all supplies were in. The impact of the fuel shortage can be seen in the increase in the number of people in Tigray needing food aid.

In January, when the region was under what the UN described as a de facto blockade for six months, 83 percent of people needed food aid.

Large-scale convoys started entering Tigray again in April but aid workers are struggling to distribute the food and the number of people needing it has risen to 89 percent, with those in “severe” needs up from 37 percent in January to 47 percent in August.

Peace talks

The fighting has displaced millions of people, pushed parts of Tigray into famine conditions and killed thousands of civilians.

Hopes for imminent peace talks between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the group that controls Tigray, are fading, as both parties accuse the other of not wanting to come to the table.

The government said earlier this month it wants talks “with no preconditions”, while Tigray’s government has called for the restoration of services to civilians first.

The World Health Organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is from Tigray, suggested this week that racism was behind a lack of international attention being paid to the plight of civilians in the region.

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The UN World Food Program (WFP) has raised worry over the status of children in Afghanistan, stating that 3.5 million Afghan children need nutritional therapy in the war-torn nation.

Meanwhile, the program said that the majority of Afghan children had access to nutritional therapy provided by foreign assistance organizations.

UNICEF previously said that by 2022, half of the Afghan children under the age of five would be severely malnourished.

Millions of Afghans have gone hungry as a result of widespread poverty brought on by displacement, unemployment, warfare, and now political transition.

Children are the most vulnerable since the nation is now experiencing a measles outbreak.

World assistance organizations have been urging the international community to help the Afghan people, who are facing the greatest humanitarian crisis in decades.

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