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Tuesday, 8 January, 2002, 15:56 GMT
In pictures: Afghans face starvation
Tens of thousands of Afghan villagers are facing starvation, and aid is reaching them only slowly.
In Bonavash, a village in the mountainous northern region of Abdullah Gan, as in other remote areas, people have nothing to eat but grass.
![]() The villagers are suffering from a hacking cough or diarrhea
![]() Those who haven't fled live in bare huts of baked mud and straw
![]() The hills around Bonavash used to be covered with fields of wheat before the drought hit three years ago
![]() Now the villagers make bread and porridge out of grass
![]() The lucky ones have a trace of barley wheat in their grass bread
![]() Villagers have lost hope and say they are waiting to die
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