Mass Starvation Looms in Afghanistan as Half the Country Faces Hunger Under Taliban Rule
More than half of the population of Afghanistan is facing extreme hunger, a frightening development that will only intensify as winter gets set to grip the war-devastated country now under Taliban control.
“The humanitarian crisis is escalating daily in Afghanistan. Hunger in the country has reached truly unprecedented levels. Nearly 23 million people—that is 55 percent of the population—are facing extreme levels of hunger, and nearly nine million of them are at risk of famine,” said UN Refugee Agency spokesman Babar Baloch told Voice of America last week.
Temperatures in Afghanistan have already begun to dip below freezing, with even colder temperatures still to come, a situation the UN warns could be dire for the over 3 million Afghans currently displaced by conflict and lack shelter, medical supplies, food, and clothes.
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