“It’s a crisis. It’s a catastrophe.” A growing number of near-starving children are being brought to a hospital in Kabul. Hunger is increasingly dramatic in Afghanistan, fueled by an economic crisis that has only gotten worse since the Taliban took power.
Four-month-old Mohammed who is malnourished lays on a hospital bed in the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. The number of people living in Afghanistan in near-famine conditions has risen to 8.7 million according to the World Food Program.
Guldana’s father, Jinnat Gul, said he can hardly afford to feed her and his other five children. He used to work going house to house collecting scrap goods and selling them. But for the past three months, work has dried up and he has hardly made any money. “It’s a crisis. It’s a catastrophe,” WFP Executive Director David Beasley said during a weekend visit to Afghanistan. The WFP is rushing in supplies to feed people as the harsh winter sets in, but it says it needs some $220 million a month in 2022 to fund its effort.
Now the economy is in full-fledged meltdown after the Taliban seized power on Aug. 15. The Taliban government is mired in financial crisis, scrambling for cash. The U.S. and other Western countries have cut off direct financial assistance to the government that covered most of its budget; also, the Taliban government cannot access billions of dollars in Afghan national reserves held abroad. As a result, millions of Afghans have not received salaries for months.
In one bed, a 4-month-old boy named Mohammed was extremely emaciated, and the flesh was shriveled on his tiny limbs. His skin was so thin that the veins showed through on his forehead like a map of tiny blue lines.
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