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NEAR Kabul International Airport, Nawuzullah led me to a low-rise mud house where there has been no electricity or water since his family fled from conflict-hit eastern Afghanistan six years ago. The father of four, including a five-month-old infant, earns about $70 a month by collecting swill for cows.
“No other job at all,” Nawuzullah said. “Sometimes there is not enough food.”
At the end of 2021, there were about 3.5 million Afghans like Nawuzullah internally displaced due to decades of turmoil and recurrent natural disasters. Food insecurity is affecting 19 million Afghans, nearly half the population, the chief of the UN humanitarian affairs Martin Griffiths told a media forum hosted by CGTN and Afghanistan’s Shamshad in August, calling on the world to join hands and stand in solidarity with the Afghan people.
