Pregnant Afghan woman dies every 30 minutes

Source Sky News

Oxfam has attacked international efforts to help the poor in Afghanistan and revealed a woman dies there every 30 minutes from childbirth complications. On the eve of the country's elections the charity described aid efforts as "ineffective, uncoordinated and wasteful". A third of Afghanistan is still at risk of hunger despite the billions of pounds donated to the country, it warned. Oxfam said America was spending about a £60m a day on its military budget in the country - but the aid budget from all the other international donors combined is less than £4.25m a day. That, the agency said, is woefully inadequate. Sky News travelled to one of the poorest areas of Afghanistan and discovered a village living in virtually medieval conditions.