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The UN Head of World Food Program (WFP) has again expressed concern over the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and added that the Afghan people have resorted to selling their children and parts of their bodies to survive.
WFP chief David Basely has once again urged the international community to expedite aid delivery to Afghanistan as over half of the population is starving in the country.
Talking to German public state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) in Berlin, the WFP chief said, Afghanistan is struggling with drought, a pandemic, an economic collapse, and the effects of years of conflict.
Some 24 million people are experiencing acute food insecurity. More than half the population will be facing famine this winter and 97 per cent of the population could fall below the poverty line this year.
Basely said, Afghanistan was already one of the poorest countries in the world, with 20 years, at least, of conflict with the Taliban.