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Hunger crisis in Afghanistan worsening: WFP

Aug 05, 2026

Kabul [Afghanistan], August 5: The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that the hunger crisis in Afghanistan is reaching increasingly devastating proportions. Cuts to development aid from many donor countries mean that the WFP can now only support one in nine malnourished children in the country, the WFP's country representative for Afghanistan, John Aylieff, said on Tuesday.

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