00:001 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition in a worsening
00:05new crisis hitting the country, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
00:10UNICEF's Afghanistan representative Tajuddin Ayewali said that if there is no treatment
00:14or rapid intervention, those children are at risk of dying.
00:18The UN agency added that the total amount of malnourished children has surpassed 3.7
00:23million across the country, though most are not classified as severe cases.
00:28Afghanistan has endured repeated periods of widespread hunger in recent decades, as it
00:33had struggled through civil war and other crises.
00:37An economic collapse followed the Taliban government's return to power after U.S.-led
00:41forces withdrew in 2021, creating instabilities greatly affecting children.
00:47Ayewali said that nearly 40 percent of children admitted to hospitals with severe wasting and
00:51medical complications were babies under the age of six months old.
00:55Meanwhile, children under two years of age make up more than 80 percent of severe acute
01:00malnutrition cases in Afghanistan.
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