According to the British "Metro News" reported on the 26th, Afghanistan is experiencing a humanitarian crisis, since the Taliban regained power, the population facing serious food shortages has increased by millions.
Afghan parents talk about selling their children so they can support other children (photo)
The U.N.'s World Food Programme says the 22.8 million people, more than half of Afghanistan's 39 million total, are facing serious food security problems and are "heading towards hunger." That compares to 14 million in August, during the Western-backed Ghani administration.
Just two months after the Taliban took over, living conditions in Afghanistan deteriorated rapidly, threatening to cause the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe, even worse than the situation in Yemen. David Beasley, executive director of WFP, said: "Children are going to die, people are going to starve to death, things are going to get worse. ”
A poor couple who sold their newborn in exchange for £400 (about 3516 yuan) would make the family "get through the months". The baby girl who was sold will accompany them until she learns to walk, and then be taken away by the person who bought her. According to the BBC in the UK, they were told that once the baby girl grew up, she would marry the buyer's child.
The father, who once lived on garbage and now has no source of income, said: "We are starving to death. Now we don't have flour in our house, no oil, we have nothing. My daughter doesn't know what her future will be, I don't know how she's going to feel, but I have to. ”
There are many hungry babies in the malnutrition ward of the hospital (photo provided by the British "Metro News")
One million Afghan children are at risk of starvation. The country is heavily dependent on foreign aid, and billions of dollars in aid payments are being withheld by Western countries that are still trying to figure out how to deal with the new Afghan regime.
The latest data released by the United Nations may prompt world leaders to speed up action. As winter approaches, food agencies need as much as £161 million (about 1.415 billion yuan) a month to feed Afghanistan's nearly 23 million people.
Aid groups have urged countries concerned about human rights in Afghanistan to engage with the Taliban to prevent a Syrian refugee crisis similar to that of 2015 that shook Europe. (Editor: SDY)