Afghanistan's government began distributing free bread to hundreds of thousands of people across the country this week as supplies have been disrupted during the coronavirus shutdown and prices have soared, Reuters reported.

More than 250,000 families in the capital Kabul started receiving ten naans per day in the first phase of the project.

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said the bread distribution programme was also taking place in other cities.

An Afghan girl receives free bread distributed by the government outside a bakery in Kabul on May 3. — Reuters
An Afghan girl receives free bread distributed by the government outside a bakery in Kabul on May 3. — Reuters

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