{"id":39828,"date":"2021-12-15T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/15\/uk-charities-launch-appeal-to-help-eight-million-afghans-at-risk-of-starvation"},"modified":"2021-12-15T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:49:16","slug":"uk-charities-launch-appeal-to-help-eight-million-afghans-at-risk-of-starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39828","title":{"rendered":"UK charities launch appeal to help eight million Afghans at risk of starvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a \u2018very small window of opportunity\u2019 to intervene, say aid workers, as poverty, conflict, drought and a freeze in humanitarian funding bring Afghanistan to the brink<\/p>\n<p>Leading UK charities have launched a joint winter appeal to save the lives of 8 million people at risk of starvation in Afghanistan, as aid workers in the country warn of a \u201csmall window of opportunity\u201d to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of conflict, economic collapse, drought and the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the country to a tipping point, according to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), the umbrella group of 15 aid agencies behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dec.org.uk\/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAweaNBhDEARIsAJ5hwbey3fTeQzQl20zTJM-3OLOqb7r_B7tfhDMu-WCCTI8FhPNDAoKQTcUaAlJ0EALw_wcB\">appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/15\/uk-charities-launch-appeal-to-help-eight-million-afghans-at-risk-of-starvation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a \u2018very small window of opportunity\u2019 to intervene, say aid workers, as poverty, conflict, drought and a freeze in humanitarian funding bring Afghanistan to the brinkLeading UK charities have launched a joint winter appeal to save the lives of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2737,"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":[46,59,393,1389,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-humanitarian-response","category-hunger","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/39828","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\/2737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39829,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39828\/revisions\/39829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}