Without the policy, these very same children would likely face starvation and lives of little potential.

These conditions led to about a million Afghans facing starvation.

When winter closes in, however, bears will face starvation, and they have been known to regard people as food.

Some 50,000-100,000 people, many of them women and children, face starvation.

"If more action had been taken earlier we would not now be at the stage where so many people are facing starvation."

Food shortages are affecting 12,000,000 people and 400,000 children face starvation.

Most of their resources were gone and they faced starvation.

A quarter of a million people still face imminent starvation.

More than three million people in the country's south still need food aid and 250,000 of them continue to face imminent starvation, the report added.

There was growing concern over an estimated 780,000 people facing starvation in central and southern areas.