KABUL: The United Nations could feed a million additional children at risk of malnutrition in Afghanistan if the country’s conflict with Pakistan and the Iran war had not inflated prices and transport costs, a senior official told AFP.
Afghanistan saw a record rise in malnutrition cases in 2025, following a deadly earthquake, climate disasters, and the return of millions of Afghans expelled from Iran and Pakistan.
“It is a nutrition crisis here in Afghanistan,” Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), told AFP.
“The surge last year was the worst we’ve ever seen. It’s worse this year.”
The WFP estimated in January that five million women and children in Afghanistan, out of a population of more than 40 million, will experience a life-threatening level of malnutrition this year.
