United Nations: 14 million Afghan children are at risk of starvation

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that if one million international aid agencies do not help Afghanistan, one million Afghan children could die from severe malnutrition.

It added that more than 3 million other children in Afghanistan are at risk of malnutrition.

Due to the many challenges facing children in Afghanistan, the United Nations Children’s Fund changed the background of its Twitter page from blue to black and did not celebrate International Children’s Day in Afghanistan.

“Today is International Children’s Day, but the United Nations Children’s Fund did not celebrate it,” said Sam Mort, director of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Afghanistan. 14 million children are at risk of starvation and more than 3 million more children are at risk of malnutrition. “If we do not act, more than 1 million children will die of acute starvation.”

On the other hand, due to poverty and economic problems, a large number of children are working hard and exhausting.

Despite UNICEF’s work in Afghanistan to help children, he warned that disaster was looming as winter approached.

The UN Children’s Fund says Afghan children do not have access to adequate food due to drought, food shortages and insecurity.

In a report in October, the agency predicted a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, saying that food security would deteriorate from November this year to March next year.

Nearly $ 192 million is needed to help Afghan children, the report said.

At the same time, Marie-Ellen McGrawarty, head of the World Food Program in Afghanistan, said 23 million Afghans could not afford a proper plate of food a day.

“2021 was one of the most tragic years in Afghanistan,” he said in a video message on Friday. Drought is unprecedented in the last thirty years. The war displaced 600,000 people before August, and Afghanistan has been in economic collapse since August. As a result of this crisis, 23 million people across the country are unable to afford a plate of food overnight.

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has also warned of the possibility of a humanitarian catastrophe as a result of Afghanistan’s economic collapse.

The committee’s chairman, Peter Maurer, told the Associated Press that signs of a humanitarian catastrophe were emerging in Afghanistan.

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