A mother holds her baby in the malnutrition ward at Indra Gandhi Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
(Photo: Reuters-Yonhap)
[Anchor]
The World Food Program says Afghanistan is fast becoming the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
The U.N. agency estimates that by next month, more than 60 percent of the population won't have enough food.
The BBC's Secunder Kermani reports from Kabul.
[Reporter]
The situation here across the country does seem to be growing increasingly dire.
Reports emerging over the last day or so in the west of Kabul of eight young children, all orphans from one family, dying from hunger and neglect.
And according to the United Nations, more than half the population, more than 22 million people are now assessed to be facing acute or emergency levels of food insecurity over the coming months during the winter.
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