World Food Programme appeals for £15.6m aid for quake-hit Afghanistan

The United Nations’ World Food Programme has appealed for £15.6m to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks in western Afghanistan (MSF Afghanistan/AP)

The United Nations’ World Food Programme has appealed for 19 million US dollars (£15.6 million) to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan.

Ana Maria Salhuana, deputy country director of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan, said it is helping survivors but urgently needed more funding because “we are having to take this food from an already severely underfunded programme”.