Nangarhar province, Afghanistan
CNN
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The wail of a woman in a floral dress reverberates through the malnutrition ward and down the stuffy hallways of a hospital in eastern Afghanistan: The unfiltered pain of a mother watching her 1-year-old son die.
Families huddle on nearby beds, hugging their children a little tighter as they watch the mother crumple to her knees, clutching the motionless body of her baby.
Mohammad Omar had been plagued with medical problems since birth. And it is impossible to tie any one death definitively to aid cuts. But food and medical shortages – exacerbated by drastic United States humanitarian aid cuts in recent months – may have…
