{"id":10569,"date":"2022-06-17T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:55:14","slug":"70-percent-of-afghan-households-not-getting-food-basic-necessities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/06\/70-percent-of-afghan-households-not-getting-food-basic-necessities\/","title":{"rendered":"70 percent of households not getting food, basic necessities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 70 percent of Afghan households are unable to provide food and other basic necessities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IFRCS said in a statement on Friday that the ongoing drought has led to an increase in poverty and hunger in Afghanistan and that international support is needed to control it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, 70 percent of Afghan households are unable to meet their food and other basic needs, which has adversely affected their families. The statement also estimated that 3 million children in Afghanistan are at risk of malnutrition and other diseases due to their infirmity.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Nabi Burhan, director of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, said Afghanistan was facing its worst humanitarian crisis in years and that the crisis was a major concern for people living in remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS) has requested 80 million Swiss franks for continued humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 70 percent of Afghan households are unable to provide food and other basic necessities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,200,5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan"],"views":336,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}