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