Taliban offer jobs for wheat to tackle hunger and unemployment

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Afghanistan's Taliban government launched a programme to tackle hunger on Sunday, offering thousands of people wheat in exchange for labour.

The scheme will be rolled out around Afghanistan's major towns and cities and employ 40 000 men in the capital alone, the Taliban's chief spokesman said at a press conference in southern Kabul.

Afghanistan -- which is already suffering from poverty, drought, electricity blackouts and a failing economic system -- is now facing the onset of what may be a harsh winter. The two-month programme will see 11 600 tons of wheat distributed in the capital, with about 55 000 tons for elsewhere in the country, including Herat, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif and Pol-i-Khomri.

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