Tag: Hunger

KABUL, Afghanistan Peace is slowly returning while an economic crisis is quickly growing in Afghanistan, a landlocked South Asian country that was mired in conflict for decades.Following the withdrawal of US forces and the Taliban’s takeover of the capital Kabul in August this year, the group announced an end to ...

New Delhi: The Global Hunger Index (GHI) does not reflect India's true picture as it is a flawed measure of hunger, the government said on Friday. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said the India's ranking ...

The fifth round of the National Family Health Survey, released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on November 24, has revealed startling reversals in nutrition and health indicators. The data shows an increase in severe wasting in children under five – from 7.5% in 2015-’16, when the ...

Rising hunger and stalled aid deliveries are creating a "fast unraveling crisis" in Afghanistan, UNICEF warned on Tuesday. "Around half of the country — 23 million people — are in need of aid, so the scale is extraordinary and it's a fast unraveling crisis to all," Samantha Mort, the chief of communications for ...

NEW DELHI — Security chiefs from Iran to Russia met on Wednesday in New Delhi to call for “unimpeded” humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, where millions face starvation as a harsh winter sets in. On Thursday in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, another set of leaders urged “uninterrupted” aid.Despite agreeing to ...

#Pakistan News Afghanistan is “at the brink of economic collapse,” Pakistan's foreign minister warned Thursday, urging the international community to urgently resume funding and provide humanitarian assistance. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke at the opening of the so-called "troika plus" meeting with American, Chinese, Russian and Taliban diplomats ...

ISLAMABAD —  United Nations agencies warned Monday humanitarian needs in Afghanistan have grown to unprecedented levels and more than half of the conflict-torn country’s population, a record 22.8 million people, will "face acute food insecurity" from November. The Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Progran said in joint ...

Steps taken to check the problem inadequate, they say. While the Government has launched a scathing attack against the publishers of the Global Hunger Index for India’s poor ranking, experts argue that not only were steps taken by the Government to check rising levels of hunger in a pandemic ...

LAHORE, PakistanRizq, a Lahore-based startup, along with a consortium of NGOs and private companies, has arranged food packs for Afghan families who are in dire need of aid.Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Musa Aamir, 27, co-founder of Rizq, said: “Bags of rations are being sent to Afghanistan that will be ...

NEW DELHI: In a strongly worded rebuttal, the Centre questioned the methodology followed by Global Hunger Report 2021 where India has moved down to 101st position in the Index (GHI) of 116 countries, from its 2020 rank of 94, pointing out that the data was based on a “telephonic ...