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Arezou Rezvani

Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last

Afghans wait for food assistance from the World Food Programme in Kabul in October. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

KABUL — Every couple of weeks, 50-year old Mari Jaan joins hundreds of other Afghans in a long food line, where she waits for a few modest items: a jug of cooking oil, bags of flour, lentils, salt.

Even after she collects this haul, her bag is light — and her burdens at home increasingly heavy.

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