Two-thirds of Afghans are going hungry, with girls' education subject to 'random edicts' of the Taliban, while crime and terrorism are thriving once more buoyed by a large spike in opium production, warned the President of the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Csaba Kor'si painted a near apocalyptic picture of ordinary life in the Taliban-ruled nation that has endured almost five decades of 'relentless conflict', urging the international community to make up the $2.3 billion shortfall in the UN humanitarian appeal for $4.4 billion.
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