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Afghan boys beg for food with a plastic fork near the village of Jano Khevl in the province of Paktika in 2011.
Afghan boys beg for food with a plastic fork near the village of Jano Khevl in the province of Paktika in 2011.
More than half of Afghan children under the age of five are chronically malnourished, according to the joint report by the World Bank and the government.
"Because of the ongoing conflict, foreign assistance has disproportionally gone to the provinces where concentration of troops and fighting has been heaviest," said acting World Bank country director Josephine Bassinette.
"But the analysis in this report shows that poverty and food insecurity rates are actually higher in the more peaceful provinces," she said, pressing for better targeting of aid to ensure it reaches the poorest people.
"It is shocking to learn that children are amongst the most vulnerable segment of the Afghan population, and their lives that could be saved are at risk," said Economy Minister Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal.
Comment: The 'fraud claims' come from one source: "the GOLOS Association, a US Government-funded NGO "established in 2000 to facilitate Western influence over the electoral proceedings in Russia."
The NED, National Endowment for Democracy (really a CIA front), lists GOLOS as one its grantees here.
Leaked GOLOS emails in December 2011 exposed US interference in Russian elections:
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