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UNICEF warns 1 million Afghan children at risk of death from malnutrition

Afghan women care for their children in the malnutrition ward at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026.
File - Afghan women care for their children in the malnutrition ward at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul on February 15, 2026. © Siddiqullah Alizai, AP

One million children subject to severe acute malnutrition in Afghanistan are at risk of dying if they do not receive immediate treatment, the UNICEF warned on Tuesday. Nearly 40 percent of those admitted to hospitals comprise babies under six months old.

One million children in Afghanistan are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition in a rapidly worsening new crisis to hit the country, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

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