The Taliban-controlled Central Bank announced that another $40 million package of humanitarian aid reached Kabul on Wednesday. The Central Bank, announced on Thursday, that the package has been deposited to a commercial bank in Kabul.
Earlier, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) had stressed that the Taliban's announcements about Kabul receiving aid cash packages had been "useless and misleading".
Over the past year and a half, almost every week, millions of dollars in cash have been received by the Taliban in Kabul.
The Taliban's access to aid money has been a major concern.
After growing concerns about the Taliban’s access to aid money, UNAMA had announced that the cash aid transferred by the United Nations to Afghanistan has been kept in the accounts of the UN in a private bank.
UNAMA also said that these donations are used by United Nations agencies for humanitarian aid to assist millions of Afghans.
According to UNAMA, the most important reason for the transfer of cash to Afghanistan is the disruption of international bank transfers and liquidity issues since August 2021.
UNAMA had previously said that since December 2021, approximately 1.8 billion dollars in cash has been transferred to Afghanistan to carry out the activities of the UN organisation and its partners.
After the Taliban’s ban on women's work in non-governmental organisations, the transfer of cash packages to Afghanistan had been suspended.
