The UNICEF representative in Afghanistan has said that 3.5 million children in the country are acutely malnourished and another 1 million are severely underweight and at risk of death, stressing that the country is facing one of the world’s most severe nutrition crises.
Bana-Tajuddin Oywale, the representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan, has announced that the country is facing one of the world’s most severe nutrition crises.
He wrote in a post on the social network X: 3.5 million children are acutely malnourished and another 1 million are severely underweight and at risk of death.
Oywale, referring to the treatment of 480,000 people suffering from malnutrition this year by UNICEF, stressed: This crisis is preventable. Providing sustainable funding and access to female health workers can save millions of lives and secure the future of children.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had previously warned that Afghanistan was experiencing one of the world’s worst hunger crises.
According to the organization’s report, 9.5 million people suffer from severe food insecurity and one in five people do not know where their next meal will come from.
The World Food Program previously reported that nearly 5 million Afghan mothers and children are struggling with malnutrition and the hunger crisis in the country is still deepening.
The United Nations has announced that more than 22 million people – more than half the country’s population – are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
A worsening drought, a cut in international aid and an increase in the return of Afghan nationals from neighboring countries this year have exacerbated poverty in Afghanistan.
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