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  3.  @felixmoyoedonmi  News Desk August 15 2022. White House finalizes theft of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves Besides stealing Afghanistan’s reserves, Washington has also washed its hands of the several war crimes committed by US troops during the disastrous pull-out last year. On the first anniversary of the Taliban's victory against the US-trained army, Washington unilaterally decided to keep $7bln of Afghanistan's foreign reserves The government of US President Joe Biden has decided not to return Afghanistan’s foreign reserves and suspended talks with Taliban officials over the issue. Following the botched withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan last year, Washington froze $7 billion of the country’s foreign reserves. Officials then decided to earmark half of the funds to pay the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks. “It is both morally condemnable and politically and economically reckless to impose collective punishment on an entire people for the actions of a government they did not choose,” reads a letter drafted by 70 economists and experts which was delivered to the White House last week. The loss of its foreign reserves has pushed Afghanistan into an acute humanitarian crisis, as the central bank lacks the resources to combat high inflation and help a populace on the brink of starvation. A report by the Save the Children NGO shows that 97 percent of Afghan families are struggling to provide enough food for their children, while almost 80 percent of children say they are going to bed hungry.
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