Afghanistan plunges into humanitarian crisis
Kabul — Afghanistan is starving. The country is in what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. An estimated 90% of those households do not have enough food to eat.
Afghanistan Malnourished infants across Afghanistan are referred to Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul for special care.
A mother told her Tyab that her four-month-old son Murtaza weighed only 6.5 pounds.
"I'm very worried," she said.
Hunger has plagued Afghanistan for decades, butthings have gotten worse since the Taliban took overa year before her. and became devastating.
As extremist groups run the country, the Biden administration has frozen billions of dollars in the assets of Afghanistan's state-owned banks. International donors, who funded nearly 80% of the country's economy, have withdrawn their financial support.
All of these moves are aimed at extorting cash from terrorist groups, and foreign governments and organizations have taken the Taliban's dramaticfundamental It continues to withhold funds, pointing to a crackdown. Freedom and its Brutality.
But an Afghan doctor told his CBS News that it was the Afghan people, not the Taliban, who were paying the price.
"Every day one or two of her malnourished children die here," one doctor told her Tyab.
In Taliban Afghanistan, hunger creeps into nearly every street. The number of people waiting outside bakeries for bread to be distributed is increasing with each passing day.
A loaf costs only 11 cents, but he still works as a day laborer, he told CBS News, which is too expensive for Najibullah. Recently, he said that work is hard to come by.
Asked if he offered any help during the years the Taliban were in power, he said, "He hasn't received a dime from the Taliban."
"Terrible," he said. "It's a slow death for us. Life isn't worth living when there's no food or work." Offered dozens of men and women to buy bread.
The total cost was no more than a few dollars, but for all who were there, they and their families didn't go to bed completely hungry...at least not for that one night.
Aid is still coming to Afghanistan, but it is nothing like it was before the US withdrawal, and it will never be enough to end what the United Nations calls "pure catastrophe."
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