Warning: Contains distressing scenes.
Afghanistan is seeing the sharpest surge in child malnutrition ever recorded, the UN has said 3.5 million children are suffering from it.
Over the past four years, since the Taliban took over, the BBC has consistently documented the worsening situation. But this year a combination of factors – a severe reduction in aid, donors walking away from the country because of the Taliban’s intransigence on women’s rights, widespread drought, and the forced return of millions of Afghans from neighbouring countries – have led to an unprecedented wave of death and stunting among Afghanistan’s children.
The BBC’s Yogita Limaye has travelled from Badakhshan in the east to Herat in the west, with Sanjay Ganguly, Mahfouz Zubaide and Aakriti Thapar.
