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UN warns 6 million Afghans at risk of famine as crises grow

FILE - A family eat lunch in their home in one of Kabul's poor neighborhoods in Kabul, Afghanistan Saturday, May 21, 2022. U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council on Monday, Aug. 30, 2022, that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine as he urged donors to immediately provide $770 million to help Afghans get through the winter. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

FILE - A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a Chinese humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Afghanistan is expected 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will face malnutrition in the country by the end of this year, as hospitals wards are packed with sick children for sever hunger and malnutrition. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

FILE - Martin Griffiths, the United Nations humanitarian chief, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, at U.N. headquarters. Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council on Monday, Aug. 30, 2022, that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine as he urged donors to immediately provide $770 million to help Afghans get through the winter. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

FILE - A mother holds her malnourished boy at the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council on Monday, Aug. 30, 2022, that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine as he urged donors to immediately provide $770 million to help Afghans get through the winter. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UN warns 6 million Afghans at risk of famine as crises grow