{"id":24404,"date":"2026-10-21T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/21\/un-says-nearly-16-million-afghans-face-severe-hunger\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T06:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:50:14","slug":"un-says-nearly-16-million-afghans-face-severe-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/21\/un-says-nearly-16-million-afghans-face-severe-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says nearly 16 million Afghans are facing severe hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned of worsening hunger in Afghanistan, saying about 16 million people in the country are facing crisis-level food insecurity, including 3.4 million who are in emergency conditions.<\/p>\n<p>According to Olga Cherevko, as winter approaches, the number of people going hungry is expected to rise to nearly 19 million, underscoring the need for an immediate humanitarian response.<\/p>\n<p>She stressed that humanitarian aid alone is not enough and that Afghanistan needs sustained investment in agriculture, employment, health services and economic opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Cherevko also warned that restrictions imposed on women and girls are not only hurting the economic conditions of families, but also putting their food security at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN says nearly 16 million Afghans face severe hunger as winter nears and humanitarian needs grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}