International banks can transfer money to Afghani-stan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups are allowed to pay teachers and healthcare workers at state-run institutions without fear of breaching sanc-tions on the Islamic Emirate, the United States said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
The US Treasury Department offered guidance on sanctions exemptions issued in September and De-cember for humanitarian work in Afghanistan, where the United Nations says more than half the country’s 39 million people suffer extreme hunger and the economy, education and social services are facing collapse.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week warned Afghanistan was “hanging by a thread.” International banks have been wary of Afghanistan and the United Nations and aid groups are strug-gling to get enough money into the country to fund operations.—TOLO
