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UK Contributes £10m Aid to Drought-hit Afghans
The United Kingdom has announced £10m of emergency food aid to 1.4 million people in Afghanistan whose lives are at risk from a deadly drought.
The UK is one of the first countries to support the United Nations’ appeal. Our rapid response will help import and distribute food and nutrition supplies before the situation deteriorates further.
UK support will help some of the poorest people who are reliant on agriculture for food and income but will struggle to survive when this year’s harvest fails in the coming weeks.
This UK aid package of support will provide immediate food and nutrition aid for 441,000 people who are already in a critical situation, including by distributing fortified wheat flour, fortified vegetable oil, pulses, salt and other nutritious foods to prevent malnutrition.
It will also support 1.4 million people until early next year by helping to replenish stockpiles of food and import high nutrient goods, which are high in essential vitamins, minerals and proteins.
International Development Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, said:
The drought in Afghanistan is an unfolding crisis, with 1.4 million people’s lives at risk when this year’s harvest fails in a number of provinces in only a matter of weeks.
The UK continues to stand by the government of Afghanistan and we have taken decisive action to step in early before the worst of the drought strikes to help prevent needless pain and suffering.
We call on other countries to join this international effort to support some of the world’s most vulnerable people during what will be immensely difficult times.
The UK support is part of a response being coordinated by the United Nations and the Government of Afghanistan. It will help prevent displacement of families who could otherwise be forced to leave their homes and communities.
Many of the poorest families have sold their livestock to get the small amount of money they need to buy food. Around 50,000 people have already fled to Herat City, in western Afghanistan, in a desperate search for ways to feed their families.
The most vulnerable people in Afghanistan have a limited ability to survive such a severe drought as a result of extreme poverty. Families in the worst affected areas have no water to grow crops for next year and are now surviving on only one meal a day, which fails to provide the calories and nutritional content they need to survive.
From: Department for International Development
Panjshir local officials say the construction of Parande power dam has progressed by 98 percent and will be completed and put into operation soon.
Panjshir governor Mohammad Agha Hakim stated that the work of this dam with the capacity to produce four megawatts of electricity will be completed in the near future.
Agha Hakim added the construction work of this dam will cost more than seven million dollars and all its costs will be paid from the budget of the Islamic Emirate.
“The total cost of Parande power dam project is 7.6 million dollars, of which 7 million has been paid and 0.6 million is left, which will be paid after the completion of the work,” he added.
“Afghans have many problems; they have a lot of needs. One of their problems is the lack of electricity in villages and markets,” he added. “The Islamic Emirate pays special attention to providing its people with domestic electricity.”
Panjshir residents, meanwhile, said that the construction of this dam was important to solve lack of the electricity and they added that with the completion of this project, the electricity problems of the people of Panjshir will be completely resolved.
The Ministry of Energy of Kyrgyzstan plans to start electricity exports through Afghanistan to Pakistan under the CASA-1000 project next year.
The $1.2bn CASA-1000 regional power project is designed to interconnect the power grids of the four participating countries, allowing for hydro power-generated electricity to be exported from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Based on Kyrgyzstan’s plan, about 1.25 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity will be exported to South Asia during the summer of next year.
Exports will increase to 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours in 2026 and to 1.75 kilowatt-hours in 2028.
Earlier this year, Kyrgyzstan signed a joint declaration with Pakistan and Tajikistan to resume the CASA-1000 project.
The World Bank has also announced that it has agreed to resume the project.
Twenty people died after a boat sank in a river in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, officials said.
The incident happened at 7:30 am on Saturday in Basol area of Mohmand Dara district, the provincial department of information and culture said.
This boat was carrying 25 people, including women and children, 20 of whom died and five others were rescued.
According to officials, the bodies of five people have been found so far and the search for other bodies continues.
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