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    Roots of the problem go back decades when global super powers decided to make a tribal people's land a playground for their proxy wars and ambitions. But latest and costliest failure might be the final state in which those people are left now after two decades of feeedom spreading and enduring for which US taxpayers have been billed $Trillions.

    Desperate Afghans are selling their children for food: report

    Nov 23, 2021

    A child walks through Fort Bliss' Doņa Ana Village where Afghan refugees are being housed, in New Mexico, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. David Goldman/AP Photo
    • Desperate Afghan parents are selling their kids in exchange for cash to feed the rest of their family or get out of debt.
    • Benazir, for example, is an 8-year-old girl sold for $2,000, an amount that will go toward feeding a 10-person family.


    Benazir and Saliha are just the latest examples of children given away by their families in Afghanistan in exchange for desperately needed cash.
    Earlier this month, a report came out of an Afghan father saying he sold his 9-year-old daughter, Parwana Malik, to a man for $2,200 to be able to afford food for his wife and other kids. The family has lived in a northwest province of Afghanistan for years, struggling to pay for basic needs like food. Together, they earn just a few dollars a day.

    Last month, a woman named Saleha said she sold her 3-year-old daughter for $550 because, like the Maliks, she didn't have enough money to sustain herself. When Insider readers heard of Saleha's story, dozens offered to pay off her debt.

    Afghanistan is on the brink of economic collapse

    Afghanistan is heading toward "universal poverty" following the Taliban's swift takeover of the country, according to a projection from a United Nations' development agency. Within a year, the poverty rate in Afghanistan will hover at a whopping 97% or 98%, said Kanni Wignaraja, UNDP's Asia-Pacific Director.

    "Afghanistan pretty much faces universal poverty by the middle of next year," Wignaraja said. "That's where we're heading — it's 97-98% no matter how you work these projections."
    businessinsider.com/desperate-afghans-are-giving-away-their-daughters-in-exchange-for-cash-2021-11



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    November 22, 2021

    Red Cross 'livid' that sanctions stoking Afghan crisis

    By Emma Farge
    GENEVA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A senior Red Cross official said he was furious that sanctions and donor freezes are cutting off basic services in Afghanistan, and he called on donors to find creative ways to prevent a "massive humanitarian crisis".
    Humanitarian workers say that U.N. and unilateral sanctions on the Islamist Taliban, which seized power in August, are causing confusion and hesitation among donors despite some efforts to grant licenses to ease aid flows.
    Dominik Stillhart, operators director for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the charity this week began paying salaries and distributing medical supplies to 18 medical facilities in Afghanistan to prevent them from collapsing.
    "I am livid," he said on Monday in a statement from Kabul after a six-day field visit to hospitals.
    "As winter sets in, policies that were meant to avoid supporting those in power are now instead freezing out millions of Afghans from the very basic needs they require to survive."

    Cases of severe malnutrition, pneumonia and dehydration have doubled since August and September in the facility, where up to three children are squeezed in each bed, he added.
    Stillhart urged donors to find "creative solutions", saying the formation of a trust fund might help get money flowing.
    "... Pulling the plug, turning off the generator and throwing away the key in my view is a recipe for disaster."

    reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/red-cross-livid-that-sanctions-frozen-aid-stoking-afghan-crisis-2021-11-22/

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    U.S. Sanctions Pushing Afghanistan Towards Collapse, Plunging the Country into one of the Worst Humanitarian Crises

    Afghan Economy Nears Collapse as Pressure Builds to Ease U.S. Sanctions

    Nov. 27, 2021
    By Christina Goldbaum
    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan
    Three months into the Taliban’s rule, Afghanistan’s economy has all but collapsed, plunging the country into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Millions of dollars of aid that once propped up the previous government has vanished, billions in state assets are frozen and economic sanctions have isolated the new government from the global banking system.

    Now, Afghanistan faces a dire cash shortage that has crippled banks and businesses, sent food and fuel prices soaring, and triggered a devastating hunger crisis. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization warned that around 3.2 million children were likely to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of the year — one million of whom at risk of dying as temperatures drop.
    No corner of Afghanistan has been left untouched.
    nytimes.com/2021/11/27/world/asia/afghanistan-economy-collapse-sanctions.html


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