Voices: The UK’s promises to Afghanistan ring hollow if aid cuts still bite

Afghan refugees girls sit over a truck loaded with their belongings last month - (AP)

I saw for myself the horrors of Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis when I visited to report on the impact of UK aid: painfully thin infants and families selling possessions to stay alive. I was told of some parents so desperate they sold their own children.

Shockingly, this man-made catastrophe is even worse 18 months later. Nearly 23 million Afghans require aid, including 12 million lacking food – just as international funding dries up. The World Food Programme has shut 298 relief sites.