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Kabul (Afghanistan), Oct 9 (EFE / EPA).- Some 3.2 million children under the age of five are at risk of severe malnutrition in Afghanistan at the end of the year. This has been announced by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), which relates the increase in these data with the takeover of the country by the Taliban.FOOTAGE OF AFGHAN CHILDREN IN KABUL.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says other countries must share the pressure Lebanon and Jordan are facing due to displacement of people from Iraq and Syria. Nathan Frandino reports.
Syrians who were forced to flee their homes when violence struck look to the future with little hope four years into civil war. Gavino Garay reports.
Hundreds of Gazans rush towards aid trucks carrying flour and canned food in Gaza City. Ten trucks have crossed into the Gaza Strip transporting aid from several countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt as well as the World Food Programme. But as fighting enters its fourth month, the World Health Organization has warned that its ability to provide aid and support hospitals was "shrinking". IMAGES
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
Heavy fighting in Sudan has led to 700,000 people being internally displaced since the middle of April, the United Nations says, adding the figure had doubled in a week. "There are now more than 700,000 internally displaced by the fighting which began on April 15," Paul Dillon, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration says. IMAGES