6 Million Afghans Facing Famine as US Refuses to Return $7 Billion in Seized Funds

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6 Million Afghans Facing Famine as US Refuses to Return $7 Billion in Seized Funds
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'The U.S. continues to fuel crisis in Afghanistan with the criminal economic warfare on the Afghan economy which starves the Afghan people,' says CodePink as the Biden administration withholds $7 billion in Afghan funds a year after the Taliban ...

"Biden should immediately reverse his executive order," said one humanitarian."With millions of Afghans impoverished and starving, the U.S. must return to the Afghan people what is rightfully theirs.

"Close to 19 million people are facing acute levels of food insecurity, including six million people at risk of famine," he warned."More than half of the population—some 24 million people—need humanitarian assistance. And an estimated three million children are acutely malnourished. They include over one million children estimated to be suffering from the most severe, life-threatening form of malnutrition. And without specialized treatment, these children could die.

Because the Taliban—which fought for two decades to oust U.S.-led forces and the coalition-backed Afghan government in a war that

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