Deadly malnutrition haunting Afghan kids amid lingering sanctions

STORY: Deadly malnutrition haunting Afghan kids amid lingering sanctions DATELINE: July 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:26 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health in Kabul 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): AQA MOHAMMAD SHIRZAD, Head of the malnutrition ward 3. various of the malnutrition ward of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Dari): MUZHDA, a mother of a two-and-a-half-month-old child 5. various of the malnutrition ward of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Dari): AQA MOHAMMAD SHIRZAD, Head of the malnutrition ward 7. various of the malnutrition ward of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health 8. various of life of a poor family STORYLINE: With hands trembling and tears streaming down her face, a grief-stricken mother reluctantly bid farewell to her infant, lost to the cruel grip of acute malnutrition, a devastating affliction that ravages countless children in Afghanistan. Such a scene is not rare at the

AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ROAD CRASH

AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ROAD CRASH

(220322) -- JALALABAD, March 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 21, 2022 shows a vehicle ruined in a pickup-sedan collision in Jalalabad city, capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Eight people were killed and two others wounded in a pickup-sedan collision in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, head of provincial traffic police directorate Jawad Shirzad confirmed on Tuesday. (Photo by Hamidullah/Xinhua)

AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ROAD CRASH

AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ROAD CRASH

(220322) -- JALALABAD, March 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 21, 2022 shows vehicles ruined in a pickup-sedan collision in Jalalabad city, capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Eight people were killed and two others wounded in a pickup-sedan collision in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, head of provincial traffic police directorate Jawad Shirzad confirmed on Tuesday. (Photo by Hamidullah/Xinhua)

AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ROAD CRASH

AFGHANISTAN-NANGARHAR-ROAD CRASH

(220322) -- JALALABAD, March 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 21, 2022 shows vehicles ruined in a pickup-sedan collision in Jalalabad city, capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Eight people were killed and two others wounded in a pickup-sedan collision in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, head of provincial traffic police directorate Jawad Shirzad confirmed on Tuesday. (Photo by Hamidullah/Xinhua)