UN: Around 10 million children across Afghanistan need humanitarian assistance

An estimated one million Afghan children are projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition over the course of this year and could die without treatment, the UN warned on Monday.

Report informs, citing Anadolu Agency, that in a statement, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said around 10 million children across Afghanistan need humanitarian assistance to survive.

She added that an estimated 4.2 million children in Afghanistan are out of school, including more than 2.2 million girls.

The statement said that approximately 435,000 children and women in the war-torn country, where the Taliban have taken power, are internally displaced.

"This is the grim reality facing Afghan children, and it remains so regardless of ongoing political developments and changes in government," Fore said.

"We anticipate that the humanitarian needs of children and women will increase over the coming months amidst a severe drought and consequent water scarcity, the devastating socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the onset of winter."