Trócaire: Stop food bombs in Afghanistan

An Irish aid agency working on the ground in Afghanistan has said the military air drops of food should stop and be replaced with the opening of borders and safe corridors.

Trocaire, which is still getting food into Kabul, said the West was defying international law and disrupting efforts to help more than a million starving people.

The agency said the most likely people to benefit from food air-drops were the fit and healthy.

Trocaire said it wanted to help the children and the elderly, and the women, who it said, were unlikely to ever benefit from food air-drops.