The World Bank has announced that $ 280 million in seized assets from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Fund will be transferred to UNICEF and the World Food Program.
According to the regional office of Pak Sahafat news agency, the World Bank announced in a statement that suppliers from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Fund today (Saturday, December 11) decided to transfer $ 280 million of the fund’s budget to UNICEF and the World Food Program by the end of December 2021.
The decision adds that this decision is the first step in reusing the funds of the Afghanistan Reconstruction Fund to provide humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people at this critical time.
UNICEF and the World Food Program in Afghanistan have the capacity to be present and prepared, and will use this budget to fill financial gaps in their existing plans to provide direct health and food services to the people of Afghanistan, in accordance with their own approaches and practices.
According to the statement, $ 100 million of this money will be transferred to UNICEF for essential health services and $ 180 million for food services to the World Food Program.
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The New York Times previously reported that the United States was considering paying $ 7 billion from Afghanistan’s confiscated assets to the families of those killed in 9/11.
The United States has seized about $ 10 billion in Afghan assets under the pretext of the Taliban coming to power.
The New York Times reported that lawyers for the families of the 9/11 victims are demanding compensation for all of Afghanistan’s assets held by the US Federal Reserve.
According to the Watson Study Center, from the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 to April 2021, 241,050 people were killed as a direct result of the US war.