NGO Warns That , Almost 10 Million Children , Are Starving in Afghanistan.<br />Save the Children warns that approximately <br />9.6 million children in Afghanistan are facing daily <br />food insecurity amid a deepening economic crisis.<br />Al Jazeera reports that Afghanistan's economic crisis is the result of a continuing drought and has been exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. .<br />A report released by Save the Children on May 10 <br />said that "immediate food assistance” <br />was necessary to save lives in the short-term. .<br />The international non-governmental organization <br />(NGO) also warned that aid alone was , “not enough to tackle the country’s <br />worst hunger crisis on record.".<br />Despite a significant amount of food <br />aid reaching families in recent months, <br />19.7 million children and adults, almost 50% <br />of the population, are still going hungry <br />and need urgent support to survive, Save the Children report, via Al Jazeera.<br />Al Jazeera reports that Afghanistan has been cut off from international financial services since August 15 when the Taliban took over the country.<br />Nearly $10 billion of the country's assets <br />were frozen by the United States, <br />triggering a nationwide banking crisis.<br />As a result of sanctions, <br />millions of dollars worth of<br />international aid has disappeared. .<br />Every single day our front-line health <br />workers are treating children who are <br />wasting away in front of our eyes because <br />they’re only eating bread once a day <br />– and those are the lucky ones, Athena Rayburn, Save the Children’s director of advocacy, communications and media, via Al Jazeera.<br />Children in Afghanistan have <br />never known a life without conflict <br />and if action is not taken soon, they will <br />not know a world without gnawing <br />hunger and empty stomachs, Athena Rayburn, Save the Children’s director of advocacy, communications and media, via Al Jazeera
