The United Nations called on donor countries and institutions to fulfill their pledges to help Afghanistan; this came in a press conference held by the spokesman for the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, at the United Nations Permanent Headquarters in New York.

The spokesperson said: "The urgent appeal that we have launched for Afghanistan, for $606 million to help 11 million people until the end of this year, is only 45 percent funded so far."

"We still need more monetization of pledges," the UN spokesperson added. On September 7, the United Nations launched an urgent humanitarian appeal for its activities in Afghanistan during the remaining four months of the year, worth $606 million. Dujarric said "Our fellow humanitarians have told us that the distribution of aid is still going on, as more than 56,000 people in the east of the country have received urgent humanitarian aid," in the past week, he added, "This includes 54,000 food insecure people who received food rations from the World Food Program, in addition to 2,100 internally displaced people and 259 returnees. Nearly 39,000 people are in need of food assistance." in Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces.”