Afghanistan: Can the Taliban avert a food crisis without foreign aid?
By DW
11 November 2021 |
3:49 pm
The UN's World Food Program has warned that half of Afghanistan's population is facing an acute hunger crisis, with millions forced to choose between "migration or starvation" amid drought and economic collapse.
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