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Dec 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/ THREAD: Afghanistan is on the brink of a mass starvation that aid groups say threatens to kill a million children in "a winter of absolute desperation and potentially death."
nytimes.com/2021/12/04/wor…2/ Malnutrition is not new to Afghanistan. But the hunger crisis this winter is set to be the worst on record: An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening levels of food insecurity nytimes.com/2021/12/04/wor…