{"id":79622,"date":"2021-10-31T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=79622"},"modified":"2021-10-31T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T17:04:02","slug":"prevent-mass-starving-in-afghanistan-un-aid-chief-urges-g20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/afghanistan\/79622-prevent-mass-starving-in-afghanistan-un-aid-chief-urges-g20\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevent mass starving in Afghanistan, UN aid chief urges G20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/IMG_20211031_202757_316-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/IMG_20211031_202757_316-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/IMG_20211031_202757_316-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/IMG_20211031_202757_316-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/IMG_20211031_202757_316-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/IMG_20211031_202757_316.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN humanitarian chief had a dire message for leaders of the world\u2019s 20 largest economies meeting this weekend: Worry about Afghanistan because its economy is collapsing and half the population risks not having enough food to eat as the snows have already started to fall.<br \/>Martin Griffiths said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press that \u201cthe needs in Afghanistan are skyrocketing.\u201d Half the Afghan children under age five are at risk of acute malnutrition and there is an outbreak of measles in every single province which is \u201ca red light\u201d and \u201cthe canary in the mine\u201d for what\u2019s happening in society, he said.<br \/>Griffiths warned that food insecurity leads to malnutrition, then disease and death, and \u201cabsent corrective action\u201d the world will be seeing deaths in Afghanistan. He said the World Food Program is feeding four million people in Afghanistan now, but the UN predicts that because of the dire winter conditions and the economic collapse it is going to have to provide food to triple that number \u2014 12 million Afghans \u2014 \u201cand that\u2019s massive.\u201d<br \/>Griffiths stressed that the current crisis is the result of two major droughts in the past few years, the disruption of services during the conflict between the Taliban and the Afghan government, and the collapse of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN humanitarian chief had a dire message for leaders of the world\u2019s 20 largest economies meeting this weekend: Worry about Afghanistan because its economy is collapsing and half the population risks not having enough food to eat as the snows have already started to fall.Martin Griffiths said in an interview Friday with The Associated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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