{"id":6945,"date":"2024-04-22T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T10:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnews.cz\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2024-04-22T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:11:08","slug":"approximately-16-million-afghans-are-facing-crisis-and-emergency-levels-of-food-shortages-on-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/ekonomika\/priblizne-16-milionu-afghancu-se-potyka-s-krizovou-a-nouzovou-urovni-nedostatku-potravin-zprava-osn\/","title":{"rendered":"UN report: some 16 million Afghans face critical food shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br><strong>Photo: Saifurahman Safi\/Xinhua<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>KABUL, April 21 (Xinhua) -- An estimated 15.8 million people in war-torn Afghanistan will experience extremely critical emergency levels of food shortages by 2024, according to a United Nations (UN) report released Thursday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UN's annual report on Afghanistan's performance in 2023, the majority of Afghanistan's population is unable to provide for basic needs such as healthcare, food, livelihoods and housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\"In early 2023, families across Afghanistan continued to struggle to feed their children. Nine out of ten people did not consume enough food, the cost of which absorbed an overwhelming 89 % of household income,\" the report said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Global Hunger Index for 2023, Afghanistan is ranked 114th out of 125 countries with sufficient data to calculate an index score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War-torn Afghanistan, with a population of around 40 million, has been struggling with poverty and economic hardship since the withdrawal of US-led forces in August 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Xinhua\/gnews.cz-JaV_07<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Saifurahman Safi\/Xinhua KABUL, April 21 (Xinhua) -- By 2024, an estimated 15.8 million people in war-torn Afghanistan will be...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[487,690,10,17,41],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ekonomika","tag-afganistan-2","tag-chdoba","tag-news","tag-top","tag-world"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}