World Dec 02 Aid official says Afghanistan's crises 'progressively getting worse' United Nations figures from early November show almost 24 million people in Afghanistan, around 60 percent of the population, suffer from acute hunger. That includes nearly 9 million people who live in near-famine.
World Nov 22 Amid lost jobs, middle class Afghans slide into poverty Many Afghan families who once had steady, stable incomes have plummeted into desperation, uncertain of how they will pay for their next meal.
World Oct 25 AP explainer: How months of tensions led to Sudan's coup The military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country's fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.