Joe Biden Left Behind A Humanitarian Crisis In Afghanistan
Almost 24 million Afghan people are facing starvation. The inflation in food prices and fuel prices also means it will cost more for aid agencies to purchase and ship food to Afghanistan.
By Helen Raleigh
December 15, 2021
When I read this news, it broke my heart: an Afghan mother sold one of her newborn twins, a baby boy, to a childless couple for $104. She had no food for her baby boy or her seven other children. Her husband works as a day laborer, earning only $1 a day.
No mother wants to be separated from her child this way unless she has absolutely no other choice. She told a reporter: “It was hard. Harder than you can imagine. I gave my child away because of destitution… I was unable to take care of him, and I could not afford anything.”
Even more tragic is many mothers in Afghanistan have done the same, and many more will have to because the country is experiencing what a United Nations official calls ”the worst humanitarian crisis we’ve ever seen.”
After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, the Taliban, an Islamist terrorist group that never governed a nation and doesn’t know how to run an economy, took charge in Afghanistan. Between that and international COVID lockdowns that have especially devastated poor countries that depend on rich countries’ economies, Afghanistan’s economy collapsed.
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