The World Food Program in Afghanistan warned it is facing a food shortage that could put millions of Afghans at risk this winter, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Ebadullah Ebadi, a WFP spokesman in Kabul, said the U.N. agency has received only 34 percent of requested funds this year, and that recent donations have come too late to be converted into food deliveries before winter. «Unfortunately right now we have no food,» Ebadi told AP Television News. «Big humanitarian organizations like the World Food Program cannot provide food to the needy people. The government is relying on organizations like us, and we cannot do anything until we receive food.» He said the WFP, a principal aid provider in Afghanistan, has committed to providing food for 2.3 million people in areas where winter arrives early. If the food is not on time, the lives of those people will be at risk, he said.
