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6.5 million children in Afghanistan forecast to experience ‘crisis levels of hunger’
Afghan children eat in a makeshift shelter after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 25, 2022
SIX-AND-A-HALF MILLION children in Afghanistan will experience “crisis levels of hunger” this year, an NGO says.
Nearly three in 10 Afghan children will go hungry.
New figures from global hunger monitoring body Integrated Food Security Phase Classification forecast that 28 per cent of Afghanistan’s population, about 12.4 million people, will face acute food insecurity before October.
