The world must act now to stop Afghans starving
That means co-operating with the Taliban, as distasteful as that is
ON NOVEMBER 8TH the World Food Programme (WFP), a UN agency, said that its estimate of people “teetering on the edge of famine” worldwide had risen from 42m earlier this year to 45m. Remarkably, just one country accounts for almost all those 3m additional people. Afghanistan is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “War, drought, famine”
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