Four million Afghans suffer malnutrition, warns the UN

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan has warned that malnutrition rates are alarmingly high and have already affected four million people in the country.

“This includes 875,000 and 2.3 million severely and moderately acutely malnourished children and 840,000 pregnant and nursing women,” UNOCHA said in a tweet on Sunday, adding that sustained funding was critical to ensuring continued preventive and curative treatment.