Aid Groups Say Starvation In Afghanistan Threatens To Kill 1 Million Children This Winter

Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan is Gripped by Starvation, Lives of Nearly 1 Mn Children on the Edge. © Provided by News18  

News 18/New York Times: Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan is Gripped by Starvation, Lives of Nearly 1 Mn Children on the Edge  

One by one, women poured into the mud brick clinic, the frames of famished children peeking out beneath the folds of their pale gray, blue and pink burqas. Many had walked for more than an hour across this drab stretch of southern Afghanistan, desperate for medicine to pump life back into their children’s shrunken veins. 

For months, their once-daily meals had grown more sparse as harvests failed, wells ran dry and credit for flour from shopkeepers ran out. 

Nearly four months since the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan is on the brink of a mass starvation that aid groups say threatens to kill 1 million children this winter. The country’s hunger crisis has drastically worsened in recent months. 

This winter, an estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening levels of food insecurity, according to an analysis by the U.N. World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization. 

Of those, 8.7 million people are nearing famine — the worst stage of a food crisis.  

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WNU Editor: With the Taliban in control of the country there is no mechanism that can distribute aid in the country without going through the hands of the Taliban first. And if the Taliban control aid distribution, you can take this to the bank, most people in Afghanistan will not receive this aid. 

Aid Groups Say Starvation In Afghanistan Threatens To Kill 1 Million Children This Winter  

Avoid starvation: ‘Immediate priority’ for 3.5 million Afghans -- UN News  

Taliban-ruled Afghanistan On 'brink Of Mass Starvation' Says WFP; Calls For Urgent Aid -- Republic World 

780,000 Afghan Children Without Shelter: Save The Children -- TOLO News 

In Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan, International Aid Remains Scarce -- WSJ  

Watch ‘Half of Afghan Population Is Seriously Short of Food, I Am Terrified' -- The Wire  

Aid official says Afghanistan’s crises ‘progressively getting worse’ -- PBS  

Afghanistan is struggling without aid, but unfreezing funds to the country is tricky -- NPR  

Aid cut-off may kill more Afghans than war -- Al Jazeera