'Afghanistan': Two-thirds of population face food insecurity

Two-thirds of Afghanistan’s population is food insecure, according to Human Rights Watch report.

“Afghanistan has largely disappeared from the media, but it remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters,” said the HRW report.

As per the reports, after the ban on women working for NGOs, the crisis has become more severe. It said 875,000 children face acute malnutrition.

“Two-thirds of the country’s population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition. Women and girls remain most at risk,” said Human Rights Watch.

According to the Human Rights report, drastic loss of aid will leave many Afghans poorer and hungrier, reported Tolo News.”The additional information I have is that the humanitarian situation remains critical in Afghanistan and our operations also remain underfunded,” said Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Earlier, World Bank in its report had said that Afghanistan is among one of the seven countries which face a catastrophic level of food crisis.

Meanwhile, UNICEF has also warned that it is facing a lack of critical food aid in Afghanistan due to a shortage of funding, amidst a widespread humanitarian crisis in the country.

Melanie Galvin, chief of nutrition at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in a video message on Twitter, said that thousands of vulnerable children could die from severe malnutrition in Afghanistan this year alone.

Galvin further added the global food organization faces an urgent funding gap of USD 21 million to buy essential supplies for treating malnutrition and training health workers around the country.

The organization also faces a shortage of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), she said. RUTF is considered an essential ready-made food supplement that can cure children suffering from malnutrition, according to Khaama Press. Years of conflict, poverty, and the broken and donation-based economy have forced ordinary people to suffer acute hunger and food shortage.

UNICEF in its report highlighted that Afghanistan is home to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. More than 28 million people, including over 15 million children, need humanitarian and protection assistance this year, a staggering increase of 4 million people over 2022. Since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the economy has failed to recover, keeping millions of people on the verge of starvation.

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