{"id":40208,"date":"2021-12-30T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/on-the-brink-drought-and-politics-leave-afghans-fighting-famine"},"modified":"2021-12-30T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T05:00:41","slug":"on-the-brink-drought-and-politics-leave-afghans-fighting-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40208","title":{"rendered":"\u2018On the brink\u2019: drought and politics leave Afghans fighting famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aid collapse after Taliban took control means just 2% of people have enough to eat, UN says<\/p>\n<p>In his seven decades, Mehrajuddin has been a police commander, a fighter for the mujahideen, a district governor and a prosecutor, and even briefly worked in Europe. Until this year, he has never struggled to feed his family.<\/p>\n<p>Now they have just one meal a day, hard discs of stale bread soaked in water until they soften to mush. \u201cAll the family are starving,\u201d he says bluntly as he waits at a food distribution centre in Kabul for a handout of lentils, rice, flour and oil. \u201cI even worry about dying, because if it happens tomorrow, how will my family pay for my funeral?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/on-the-brink-drought-and-politics-leave-afghans-fighting-famine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid collapse after Taliban took control means just 2% of people have enough to eat, UN saysIn his seven decades, Mehrajuddin has been a police commander, a fighter for the mujahideen, a district governor and a prosecutor, and even briefly worked in Eur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"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":[46,1311,958,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-food-poverty","category-poverty","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\/40208","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\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40209,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208\/revisions\/40209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}