Afghan boys look over a fence at a distribution of humanitarian aid to needy families in KabulLONDON, Mar 30The UK will provide an additional £286 million in emergency assistance to Afghanistan, the British Foreign Office said ahead of an international pledging conference in support of the UN Humanitarian Appeal. The UN estimates that some 10 million children in Afghanistan are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. «UK intends to allocate a further £286 million towards emergency British assistance to the Afghan people to provide life-saving food and emergency medical care,» the statement said. Along with humanitarian assistance, the UK funding will support improved access to health care and help farmers cope with the consequences drought. It is noted that the new UK funding will be channeled through UN partners and trusted NGOs, no funding will go directly to the Taliban*. The UK had previously doubled aid to Afghanistan in fiscal year 2021-22 to £286m. In early August 2021, the Taliban stepped up their offensive against Afghan government forces, entered Kabul on 15 August and declared the war over the next day. The last two weeks of August, from the Kabul airport, which was under the protection of the US military, there was a mass evacuation of Western citizens and Afghans who collaborated with them. On the night of August 31, the US military left the Kabul airport, ending nearly 20 years of US military presence in Afghanistan. In early September, the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan was announced, which was headed by Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who served as head of the Foreign Ministry during the first rule of the Taliban *. *The movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities
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