More than four million mothers and children are now suffering from malnutrition in Afghanistan, the World Food Program warned on Wednesday, as deepening poverty, unemployment and donor fatigue push the country’s humanitarian crisis to new extremes.
In a post on X, the U.N. agency said the rising toll is directly tied to food insecurity and widespread economic hardship, especially in female-headed households or those with limited income.
“Malnutrition is tightening its grip on Afghanistan’s most vulnerable,” the agency wrote, sharing a video of Bibi Hawa, a mother in Kabul struggling to feed her child. Her husband is unemployed, and the family survives on dry bread, she said.
