UN: Without funding, food stocks in Afghanistan 'will run out at end of the month'

About a third of the country’s population of 38 million were facing 'emergency' or 'crisis' levels of food insecurity, according to Ramiz Alakbarov, the local UN humanitarian co-ordinator

The UN has brought in food and distributed it to tens of thousands of people over recent weeks. Picture Wali Sabawoon/AP

Food in Afghanistan could run out this month, a senior UN official has warned.

The suggestion threatens to add a hunger crisis to the challenges facing the country’s new Taliban rulers as they endeavour to restore stability after decades of war.