MONITORING (SW) – Senior Biden administration officials are working with Taliban leadership on a mechanism to allow Afghanistan’s government to use its central bank reserves to deal with a severe hunger crisis without giving the former militant group free rein, reported Washington Post.
SHARANA (SW) – Residents of the earthquake affected districts in Paktika and Khost are worried about the possibility of the spread of various diseases among the displaced families.
MONITORING (SW) – The Ukraine war and other conflicts pushed the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution over the staggering milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, said the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
MONITORING (SW) – Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, head of the Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil, has said the world does not have the authority to decide on the hhijabin Afghanistan.
MONITORING (SW) – Afghanistan has dropped 34 places in the World Press Freedom Index 2022, announced the Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday.
KABUL (SW) – The US Special Envoy Rina Amiri has said that the Muslim world must champion the rights of Afghan women and girls.
MONITORING (SW) – The World Bank has put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on hold amid concerns over a decision by the country’s ruling Islamist leaders to ban girls from returning to public high schools, the bank said.
MONITORING (SW) – Achim Steiner, director of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has called on the leaders of the Islamic Emirate to reconsider their decision on girls’ education and press freedom.
MONITORING (SW) – Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker has said that any country that wants to recognize the Islamic Emirate of the Taliban in Afghanistan will be sanctioned by Washington.
MONITORING (SW) – Urging the world to engage with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the top UN envoy in Kabul has said that the Afghan people cannot be truly assisted without working with the de facto authorities in the war-ravaged country.
KABUL (SW) – Nearly a century since radio was introduced in Afghanistan, the broadcast medium remains popular despite phenomenal changes in the modes of mass communications.
KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate has urged the Islamic countries to play their role in earning international recognition for their rule in Afghanistan.
