Hospitals struggle, hunger surges in Afghanistan amid U.S. aid cuts

Hospitals struggle, hunger surges in Afghanistan amid U.S. aid cuts

HATAM KHAIL, Afghanistan — Sometimes, Muhammad Usman thinks about what he would buy if he became rich. He would start with the basics, he said, which his family has gone without for months: a sack of flour, sugar, some cooking oil.

In March 2024, international donors delivered boxes of emergency food to his village, Hatam Khail, which is just an hour’s drive from Kabul, the Afghan capital, but feels much farther — blighted by decades of war and cut off from most basic services.

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