{"id":25410,"date":"2026-11-04T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/04\/humanitarian-crisis-southern-afghanistan-malnutrition-taliban\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:15:18","slug":"humanitarian-crisis-southern-afghanistan-malnutrition-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/04\/humanitarian-crisis-southern-afghanistan-malnutrition-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian Situation in Southern Afghanistan Deteriorates Sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned of a severe worsening of the humanitarian situation in southern Afghanistan. Health centers in these provinces are overwhelmed with patients, and the number of people suffering from acute malnutrition is rising.<\/p>\n<p>According to OCHA, poverty and hunger are placing immense pressure on families, and while people are grappling with multiple simultaneous crises, humanitarian aid resources are continuously declining.<\/p>\n<p>This dire humanitarian situation in the south is a direct result of the Taliban administration&#8217;s restrictions and failures to provide essential support and vital services to those in need, significantly exacerbating livelihood challenges for a large portion of the Afghan population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN warns of sharp humanitarian crisis in southern Afghanistan amid rising malnutrition and dwindling aid under Taliban administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25410","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\/25410","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=25410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}