BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | In pictures: Afghans face starvation

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Tuesday, 8 January, 2002, 15:56 GMT

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.

Three women in Bonavash watching over a sick child

Three women and a child sitting in a mud hut in Bonavash

Scenery around Bonavash

A man showing the grass which has become the staple food in Bonavash

Children eating grass bread in Bonavash

A woman in Bonavash

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