{"id":6603,"date":"2022-07-03T17:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:21:43","slug":"world-food-program-19-million-people-in-afghanistan-are-in-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/world-food-program-19-million-people-in-afghanistan-are-in-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"World Food Program: 19 million people in Afghanistan are in food insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Eileen McGrotty, director of the World Food Program in Afghanistan, has said that the scale of the crisis in Afghanistan is very obvious and that many families are arguing over the arrangement of food on their tables every day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 19 million people in <a href=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/\" class=\"arseo-internal-link\" data-arseo=\"1\">Afghanistan<\/a> are at risk of food 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