Xinhua News: U.S. aid agency offers fund to WFP for food assistance to Afghans
“The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) offered 20 million U.S. dollars to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support needy Afghans, announced WFP in a statement here Monday. ‘The contribution will enable WFP in Afghanistan to provide food assistance to over 577,000 people in need. Nearly 70 percent of the money will be spent in Afghanistan to buy locally milled, nutrient-enriched flour and salt,” the statement reads…” (7/10).