U.N. urgently needs cash in Afghanistan, but struggles for solution

FILE PHOTO: Women wearing burqas sit with their children as the beg along a road in Kabul, Afghanistan October 26, 2021.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations cannot get enough cash into Afghanistan to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people on the brink of starvation and is struggling to develop options to help stabilize the collapsing economy, U.N. officials said.

Ultimately political solutions are needed, a senior U.N. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity, an apparent reference to sanctions relief and for governments and institutions to free up billions of dollars of Afghan assets held overseas.