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Afghanistan is starving to death and there is nothing the West can do

20 November 2021

9:54 PM

20 November 2021

9:54 PM

The scale of the human tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan is hard to comprehend. The economy has collapsed, some 20 million people face death by starvation and international agencies like the World Food Programme have already doubled their estimate of what they will need just to keep people alive.

They are appealing now for a staggering $2.4

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