Winter Of Hunger Looms In Afghanistan

An Afghan boy wait for customer as he sells vegetables in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

From the AP:

NILI, Afghanistan (AP) — The farmer squats barefoot on packed earth in front of his two-room mud house. He has looked at his bags of wheat, he says, and counted the days.

Ghulam Sakhi, 50, says his family will run out of food in mid-January — only a third of the way through Afghanistan's frigid winter.

As the days shorten and the nights grow colder, this winter threatens to be Afghanistan's most desperate in nearly two decades.

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