U.S. Resuming Some Funding for Humanitarian Aid Efforts in Afghanistan

The Biden administration is restarting U.S. funding to humanitarian aid programs in Afghanistan that have been halted just after the Taliban took management of the country, in what senior administration officers mentioned is a vital check of no matter whether the team will interfere in this kind of attempts.

The U.S. Agency for Worldwide Progress is redirecting more than $260 million that had been programmed for tasks in Afghanistan in advance of the Taliban takeover, the officers mentioned, sending the income to programs providing food stuff, medication and other humanitarian aid wanted to support the country cope with a increasing financial disaster.