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U.N. Working with Taliban to Offer Afghans Humanitarian Aid

By FRANCES MARTEL

Several United Nations agencies announced on Thursday that they had begun a nationwide humanitarian aid distribution campaign in Afghanistan, about a month after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the organization was working in the country “with the cooperation of the Taliban.”

The World Food Program (WFP) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) both began distributing money and food aid, as well as winter supplies, in Afghanistan this week. Both typically begin operations at the end of the year to help Afghans prepare for the frigid winter, which brings with it heightened threats of starvation and death by hypothermia for Afghanistan’s poor and displaced.

A third U.N. agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), issued a warning on Thursday that malnutrition in the country had “reached dramatic levels” and humanitarian crisis may soon become unavoidable…

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