Another local radio ceaes operations
MONITORING (SW) – ‘Paktia Ghag’ or Voice of Paktia became the latest radio station to shut operations in Afghanistan amid prevailing difficult financial and political circumstances.
Day: April 14, 2022
Authorities claim progress towards reopening girls’ schools
KABUL (SW) – Authorities claim to have made progress towards reopening the girls’ schools across the country.
WHO chief blames racism for greater focus on Ukraine than Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Yeman and Syria
MONITORING (SW) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has criticised the global community’s focus on the war in Ukraine, arguing that crises elsewhere, including in his home country of Ethiopia, are not being given equal consideration, possibly because the people affected are not white.
Isolation of economy leading to extremism threats to Afghanistan, region
MONITORING (SW) – The isolation of the Afghan economy following last August’s political crisis risks erasing development gains achieved over the past two decades, leading to grave poverty, displacement, fragility, and extremism threats to Afghanistan, the region, and the world, says the World Bank’s new Afghanistan Development Update.
Islamic Emirate rejects NYT report on abductions, killings
KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate has rejected a New York Times report on arbitrary abductions and extra-judicial killings of former government forces and officials.
