{"id":22320,"date":"2026-09-21T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/norway-donates-1-63-million-to-afghanistan-humanitarian-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:30:17","slug":"norway-donates-1-63-million-to-afghanistan-humanitarian-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/norway-donates-1-63-million-to-afghanistan-humanitarian-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway gives $1.63 million to Afghanistan humanitarian fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that Norway has donated 15 million kroner, equivalent to $1.63 million, to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund, a contribution made amid a severe shortage of funding for aid to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Monday, Sept. 30, OCHA thanked the Norwegian government for the donation. According to the agency, the new funds could help sustain humanitarian operations for people in need in different parts of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The contribution comes as Afghanistan&#8217;s humanitarian support programme faces a serious funding shortfall. The United Nations has requested $1.7 billion for this year to assist 17.5 million vulnerable and needy people in Afghanistan, but so far only a little more than 30% of that budget has been secured.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA is the UN body coordinating emergency humanitarian aid, and the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund is one of the main financing mechanisms for responding to urgent needs in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway donates $1.63 million to Afghanistan&#8217;s humanitarian fund as the UN says its aid appeal remains only 30% funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}