According to the country’s central bank, Afghanistan received $32 million in humanitarian cash assistance as the international community continues to provide humanitarian aid. Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) had said on Twitter that “After a series of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, $32 million in cash arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday, April 17.”

On Monday, the DAB also announced an auction of $13 million to pump foreign currency into the local market and stabilise afghani. The DAB has been continuously trying to maintain the value of afghani at a fixed and desirable level against the foreign currency, it said. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, the US has reportedly frozen more than $9 billion of assets of Afghanistan’s central bank and thus undermined the banking system in the war-torn country.