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January 11, 2022

U.N. Appeals for Nearly $5 Billion in Afghanistan Aid as 1 Million Children Face Severe Malnutrition
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The United Nations has launched a nearly $5 billion aid appeal for
international donors to Afghanistan. U.N. Humanitarian Affairs and
Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said, without immediate
assistance, a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe looms in Afghanistan.

Martin Griffiths: "A million children potentially suffering severe acute
malnutrition. A million children. Figures are so hard to grasp when
they're this kind of size, but a million children in Afghanistan at risk
of that kind of malnutrition, if these things don't happen, is a
shocking one."

In Washington, D.C., the Congressional Progressive Caucus is demanding
the Biden administration lift economic sanctions imposed after the
Taliban overran Afghanistan in August. The caucus tweeted that if the
current U.S. economic policy toward Afghanistan continues, "there could
be more civilian deaths this year than there were in 20 years of war."


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