{"id":16722,"date":"2020-04-01T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/01\/no-profit-no-food-lockdown-in-kabul-prompts-hunger-fears"},"modified":"2020-04-01T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:00:16","slug":"no-profit-no-food-lockdown-in-kabul-prompts-hunger-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16722","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No profit, no food&#8217;: lockdown in Kabul prompts hunger fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Afghanistan\u2019s capital face stark choice between providing food for their families and limiting risk of coronavirus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/01\/afghanistan-braces-for-coronavirus-surge-as-migrants-pour-back-from-iran\">Afghanistan braces for coronavirus surge as migrants pour back from Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The streets of Afghanistan\u2019s capital, Kabul, were packed on Friday; a hectic bustling in the markets and shops, pious whispers ringing from prayer gatherings at the mosques, the skies full of kites that children were flying.<\/p>\n<p>But on Saturday the city of around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/dec\/11\/kabul-afghanistan-fifth-fastest-growing-city-world-rapid-urbanisation\">six million people<\/a> went into lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus in one of the poorest and most war-torn countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/apr\/01\/no-profit-no-food-lockdown-in-kabul-prompts-hunger-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Afghanistan\u2019s capital face stark choice between providing food for their families and limiting risk of coronavirusAfghanistan braces for coronavirus surge as migrants pour back from IranSee all our coronavirus coverageThe streets of Afghan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,87,1069,59,914,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-conflict-and-arms","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16723,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16722\/revisions\/16723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}