{"id":9448,"date":"2022-04-11T07:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T07:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=9448"},"modified":"2022-10-15T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:20:13","slug":"afghanistan-facing-malnutrition-of-unparalleled-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/04\/afghanistan-facing-malnutrition-of-unparalleled-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan facing malnutrition of unparalleled proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">People in Afghanistan are facing a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis of unparalleled proportions, said the UNHCR on Monday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;The worst-affected are<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">. Many children are out of<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">as they must work or beg to support their families as millions are on the brink of starvation&#8221;, it tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last year, the\u00a0UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi warned of a surge of Afghan refugees amid mounting fears of economic collapse in the war-ravaged country and called for urgent economic aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe risk having an implosion that will cause an inflow of people inside the country for sure but at that point also outside of the country in quest of better conditions of life,\u201d Grandi told reporters via video link from Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has repeatedly warned that Afghanistan is on the brink of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Afghanistan\u2019s 38 million population is expected to face hunger this winter, according to aid groups, as the economy teeters on the verge of collapse due to frozen international aid.<\/p>\n<p>Grandi said that the crisis can still be avoided, but it requires faster action in terms of implementing systems to ensure the Afghan economy can function, that services continue and that cash flow into the country resumes.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he will travel to Tehran in several days to discuss the issue with Iran\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0People in Afghanistan are facing a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis of unparalleled proportions, said the UNHCR on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,179,977,17,18,200,981,980,24,225,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,63,66,207,278,319],"class_list":["post-9448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-economy-business","category-women-rights","category-security_","category-peace","category-democracy-human-rights","category-economy","category-society-culture","category-women","category-corruption","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-refugees","tag-iran","tag-women","tag-children","tag-unhcr"],"views":383,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448","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=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12195,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions\/12195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}