One million Afghan children suffer 'life-threatening' malnutrition

One million children in Afghanistan are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition amid a worsening crisis, the United Nations warned Tuesday. UNICEF, the UN's children's agency, says 3.7 million children across the country are acutely malnourished, a condition known as wasting. Afghanistan, France 24 notes, has faced repeated hunger emergencies in recent decades amid civil war and other crises.

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