The 40-year-old woman, from northern
Jawzjan province, gave the baby to a
childless couple in return for $104 (N43,
000 at the official rate of N410 to $1)
which she hoped would buy enough food
to last her family for another six months.
An Afghan mother has been forced to sell one
of her newborn twins to get money to feed the
other amid the country's rapidly worsening food
crisis.
The 40-year-old woman, from northern Jawzjan
province, gave the baby to a childless couple in
return for $104 (N43, 000 at the official rate of
N410 to $1) which she hoped would buy enough
food to last her family for another six months,
Daily Mail reports.
Drought had forced the couple to move to a
nearby city, where her husband and second-
eldest son worked as labourers before the
Taliban take-over in August collapsed
Afghanistan's economy and work dried up.
The UN now warns that more than half of
Afghanistan's population faces starvation this
winter, a problem compounded by the fact that
many aid agencies fled the country as the
government collapsed and international aid dried
up.
This family's plight was uncovered by Save the
Children, which does still have workers on the
ground who are distributing what food they have
to those in need.
Speaking to the charity workers, the Afghan
mother explained that she had given birth to the
twins - a boy and a girl - around four or five
months ago, shortly after leaving their farm due
to drought.
Sitting in a bare room carpeted in rugs donated
by a local mosque, the woman explained that all
of the children's clothes are secondhand and
donated by locals.
She had initially planned to keep both children,
but was barely able to get hold of enough food
for even one of them - typically bread, and
sometimes milk powder.
Her husband, 45, works as a labourer but says
there are only enough jobs for one day of work
in five - and the day's wages, around $1, are
enough for just two days of food.
The second-eldest son also works in the nearby
market, the mother said, pushing carts that stall
owners use to carry their produce.
But because he is young, owners often prefer to
use stronger children and he frequently goes
without work as well.
With the new babies crying continually from
hunger, the woman says a childless couple
approached her and offered $104 to take her
newborn son away.
Initially she refused, but after several days of
seeing the boy cry with nothing to eat - she
decided that giving him away was the best
option to provide for him and for her remaining
children.
She said: 'It was hard. Harder than you can
imagine. I gave my child away because of
destitution... I was unable to take care of him
and I could not afford anything.
'I gave all of the money to my husband. He
bought some rice, oil, and flour. We already
finished them.'
Her husband added: 'We need help, we are
hungry and poor.
'There are no work opportunities in Afghanistan.
We have children. We need flour and oil the
most, which we don’t have. It’s also good to
have firewood.
'I could not afford to buy meat in the last two or
three months. We only have bread for the
children which is not always available.'
Save the Children provided the family with
emergency packages for their home.
They were given items for the kitchen, blankets,
winter clothing, shoes, tool kits and other
essential items such as a gas cooking stove.
Workers also learned of a second case where
another mother of twins was pressured by her
family to leave one of them to die because she
was suffering from malnutrition - but she
refused to give up on the girl.
The woman's 18-month-old twins are both
unwell and weak. With the weather getting
colder and the little suffering from severe
malnutrition, the woman explained she can’t
afford to care for her children as a single
parent.
"My son and my daughter cried all last night
because they were hungry. We have nothing in
my house. We have no food, no flour, we have
nothing," she said.
"My husband doesn’t send us money. (He says)
'let her die'. Everyone was telling me, "We 'will
buy her, but I didn’t give her up."




http://saharareporters.com/2021/12/10/mother-sells-her-newborn-child-money-feed-afghanist

Nigeria happy now to have a sister in crime. The future now feeding from the future future

Buhari,God will not allow you to turn this country to Afghanistan

This is what Northern Nigeria are striving to make a reality, but God pass them. Meanwhile Nigeria is the third most terrorized country after Iran and Afghanistan according to Global Terrorism Index.
Anywhere Islam enter bloodshed is sure to follow.


Allahu Akboom!!!

UN and other organizations sef should stop giving a bleep about this people

They are in their Utopia Islam paradise

Is this not what the world needs, a world for only muslims

Hahahahahah

Core North in 5yrs after Nigeria break up all in one word AFGHANISTAN...

God heal the world....

Light my kpoli

Doesn’t sound surprising
When religion rules a country rather than sense then things like this are bound to happen

Islam