Afghanistan faces widespread hunger amid worsening humanitarian crisis

At Kandahar’s Mirwais Hospital, the pediatrics ward is filled with skeletal babies suffering from acute malnutrition. As many as five children are in each bed. Others are sprawled on the floor.

“It’s the sheer levels of desperation that we’re seeing in people,” said Vicki Aken, Afghanistan director of the International Rescue Committee. “The humanitarian situation seems to be going from bad to worse.”

Over 22 million people, more than half the country’s population, are facing crisis-levels of hunger, the majority of them unable to guarantee when their next meal is going to be, according to the U.N. World Food Program. This marks a dramatic increase since September, when more than 14 million people were at risk of going hungry. The organization also estimated that in December, 95 percent of the population had insufficient food consumption, adopting measures to cope with their situation by skipping a meal, for example. Since October 2020, when drought struck Afghanistan, the situation has continued to get worse.

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Afghanistan faces widespread hunger amid worsening humanitarian crisis

Most international assistance was cut off after the Taliban took over in August. Hospitals and schools cannot afford to pay their staff, and many people cannot afford to buy food, adding to an already dire hunger crisis.

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