Starvation will impact more than half of the country's population, says a new u.N. Report. In rural areas, it is extremely desperate, because this is another year where people are facing a drought. A nurse at a clinic in herot run by doctors without borders, measures tarzana's arm. If the band goes red, she's severely malnourished.
That’s what the United Nations says is taking place in Afghanistan right now.
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