The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun distributing emergency food and non-food supplies to drought-affected people in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghor, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Each of 20,000 families in the provincial capital of Cheghcheran are to receive 60 kg of split peas and 54 kg of edible oil to cover food needs for six months. Each family is to also receive three blankets and WFP would provide wheat. The ICRC move came after WFP announced on Friday that hundreds of thousands of Afghans could face starvation unless it received some US $54 million to feed the population through the winter. Several hundred people have already died as a result of the drought, and people have reportedly been forced to eat grass and locusts.
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