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Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN World Food Programme, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out.

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Afghanistan - The Harvest Is Not Out of the Woods

The u.N. did warn early this year that nine million afghans were at risk of famine, but early this month said that this had been averted. The last months of the conflict here in afghanistan, before august, were some of the bloodiest months in the entire conflict. We reached over eight million people in january, 12 million people in february and are on target to reach 18 million in march. You know, wen, the humanitarian needs will continue. As i said, where not out of the woods. The hardest is not int july. And when we don't have a solution, many people that were, we are assisting to

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