Famine in Afghanistan: Will crisis force reset of relations with the Taliban?

It's winter and the United Nations estimates that more than half the population doesn't have enough to eat. With famine and shuttered health care facilities come disease and a spike in epidemics like pneumonia. Are the Taliban fit to govern? Those who have fled or are in hiding argue not. But what happened during the two decades when they were out of power?

Afghanistan has grown but also seems to have grown more dependent on outside assistance and with revenue nosediving, the country is left addicted to remittances and the drug trade. How to change course? And whose job is it to fix it?

>> Soaring pneumonia and starvation is killing thousands of children in Afghanistan

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juilette Laurain and Léopoldine Iribarren.

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