David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Program, was in Afghanistan last week, during the evacuation period, to personally see to arrangements to continue and step up food and humanitarian relief in these very hard times. He met with Taliban leaders on plans. Then, back in his home state of South Carolina, he was interviewed by the local WBTW TV, in a video now in circulation, stressing the need for resources and action in Afghanistan.
Overall, 14 million Afghans are in need of humanitarian relief—half the population, with over 500,000 displaced. There are 4 million facing death from starvation this winter, without reliable food relief, Beasley said, which the WFP has to preposition now.
