{"id":36543,"date":"2021-09-07T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/07\/our-children-are-hungry-economic-crisis-pushes-afghans-to-desperation"},"modified":"2021-09-07T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T04:00:20","slug":"our-children-are-hungry-economic-crisis-pushes-afghans-to-desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36543","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our children are hungry\u2019: economic crisis pushes Afghans to desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans forced to sell possessions on streets of Mazar-e-Sharif as fragile economy buckles under instability<\/p>\n<p>Yasemeen sits in the back of an open trailer with a bundle of her family\u2019s old clothes wrapped in scarves and some used notebooks already full of a child\u2019s handwriting. The vehicle pulls over in a busy roundabout in central Mazar-e-Sharif, a city that until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/swift-taliban-takeover-proves-us-and-uk-analysis-badly-wrong\">Taliban takeover<\/a> last month was known as the economic powerhouse of northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is a scene of desperation as Afghanistan\u2019s economic crisis sends ordinary people like Yasemeen on to the street to sell their last possessions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/07\/our-children-are-hungry-economic-crisis-pushes-afghans-to-desperation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans forced to sell possessions on streets of Mazar-e-Sharif as fragile economy buckles under instabilityYasemeen sits in the back of an open trailer with a bundle of her family\u2019s old clothes wrapped in scarves and some used notebooks already full o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2548,"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":[46,59,61,44,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","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\/36543","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\/2548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36544,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36543\/revisions\/36544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}