Experts bla\u00adm\u00aded poor Taliban governance and international policies for the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan where more than 90 percent of the households go hungry, says a report published on Monday.
\nThe UN World Food Programme (WFP) has already described this as \u201cthe worst humanitarian crisis on Earth\u201d while the international community still ponders how to help Afghans without benefiting the Taliban.
\n\u201cInternational donor assistance was reduced to a trickle when the Taliban seized power last year, and the cutoffs were economically devastating,\u201d says another report published by the Foreign Policy magazine.
\nBut the Taliban regime too shares the blame as it \u201chas more capacity to provide relief than it lets on. It is generating revenue, especially through border trade, but it blames the crisis on Western sanctions,\u201d the report adds.
\nIn its latest report that sums up the food situation in Afghanistan till the end of November 2022, the WFP said it\u2019s now raising supplies to help more than 22 million people who are forced to \u201ctake desperate measures to get enough money to eat.\u201d
\nWFP\u2019s Executive Director David Beasley told BBC in a recent interview that the situation \u201cis as bad as you possibly can imagine. In fact, we\u2019re now looking at the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth.\u201d
\nCommenting on the ever \u201cworsening humanitarian crisis\u201d in Afghanistan, a US-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW), warns that \u201cacute malnutrition is now entrenched across the country. For nearly a year, over 90pc of households have not been able to get enough food.\u201d Other experts are predicting that, \u201cif the weather is as poor as predicted this winter, millions of people including children are likely to face acute hunger and widespread famine.\u201d
\nThe latest WFP report notes that 19.9 million people \u2014 nearly half of the population \u2014 are projected to be acutely food insecure between November 2022 and March 2023.
\nPreliminary estimates collected by WFP show that 4.7 million children, pregnant and lactating women are at risk of acute malnutrition in 2022 and 3.9 million children are acutely malnourished. All 34 provinces are facing crisis or emergency levels of acute food insecurity. In November, WFP assisted 3.5 million people so far with emergency food, nutrition, and livelihood support. Distributions are ongoing to reach 15 million beneficiaries this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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