{"id":40577,"date":"2022-01-12T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/12\/gordon-brown-calls-liz-truss-help-raise-funds-for-afghanistan"},"modified":"2022-01-12T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T14:03:11","slug":"gordon-brown-calls-on-liz-truss-to-help-raise-funds-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40577","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown calls on Liz Truss to help raise funds for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister says country is at risk of famine and UK must take lead in resuming delivery of aid<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jan\/12\/people-afghanistan-starving-sanctions-before-food-gordon-brown\">The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brown has written to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, calling on her to help convene a donor conference to raise $4.5bn (\u00a33.3bn) for Afghanistan as he warned that more than 23 million people were at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/on-the-brink-drought-and-politics-leave-afghans-fighting-famine\">risk of starvation<\/a> if aid did not materialise.<\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister said: \u201cWe are witnessing a shameful but also self-defeating failure to prevent famine\u201d, adding that the UK should urgently take a lead in resuming the delivery of aid dramatically halted after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/12\/gordon-brown-calls-liz-truss-help-raise-funds-for-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister says country is at risk of famine and UK must take lead in resuming delivery of aid\u2022 The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrongGordon Brown has written to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"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":[46,247,1374,2351,4,61,44,52,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-gordon-brown","category-liz-truss","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40578,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40577\/revisions\/40578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}