The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises reveals that Afghanistan ranks fifth among the world’s ten countries with the highest levels of acute hunger. According to the report, 17.4 million people in Afghanistan are facing severe food insecurity, constituting 36% of the total population.
Among them, 4.7 million people are in emergency starvation or famine conditions, living day and night in situations that require urgent humanitarian assistance. These figures highlight the worsening livelihood crisis in Afghanistan, a crisis…