Desperate Afghans queue for free bread

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The bread distribution launched on Saturday is a part of the “Save Afghans from Starvation” marketing campaign organised by a college professor in Kabul. No less than 75 households in seven districts of the snow-covered capital will obtain day by day rations of naan bread for a month. Afghanistan is within the grip of a humanitarian disaster, compounded by the Taliban takeover in August, when Western nations froze worldwide help and entry to property held overseas. Jobs have dried up and plenty of civil servants haven’t been paid for months within the nation, which was virtually totally depending on overseas donations beneath the earlier US-backed authorities. The UN has warned that half the nation is liable to meals shortages.

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