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Germany warns of 'worst humanitarian catastrophe' in Afghanistan
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BERLIN, 24 December 2021, (TON): Germany's new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, pledged to work with international partners to help avert in Afghanistan what she called “the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our time”.
Outlining an action plan two weeks after taking office, Baerbock said Berlin sought to assure that outside aid reached the neediest Afghans and step up the evacuation of those most threatened under the Taliban, especially women and girls.
Baerbock told reporters “before our eyes, Afghanistan is heading into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our time.”
“Major sectors of the economy have collapsed, many people are starving. One can hardly bear it when one reads that families in their desperation are selling their daughters to buy food.”
She said “24 million Afghans were estimated to need assistance to survive this winter.”
Baerbock said “we cannot allow hundreds of thousands of children to die because we don't want to take action.”
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