MONITORING (SW) – Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal death rates in the Asia and the Pacific region at 638 deaths per 100,000 live births, and the situation is expected to get worse without timely and appropriate interventions for maternal health.
KABUL (SW) – The Director General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation office in Afghanistan, Dr Muhammad Saeed Al-Ayash, has assumed office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday 4 March 2022.
LASHKARGAH (SW) – The Islamic Emirate is seeking international funds to support and revive media houses facing eminent closure, said an official on Sunday.
MONITORING (SW) – Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Islamic Emirate, had urged Afghans who have left the country after the fall of the previous government, to return and serve the nation.
MONITORING (SW) – Russian forces have declared a ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.
MONITORING (SW) – The World Food Program has said that 22.8 million people – half of the population – are projected to be acutely food insecure in 2022,1 including 8.7 million at risk of famine-like conditions.
MONITORING (SW) – A blast at a mosque in Paktia province on Friday killed two people and injured six others.
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.
MONITORING (SW) – The Committee to Protect Journalists has said in a fresh report that the media in Afghanistan that emerged in the two decades after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan has entered a ‘chilling new phase in its clamp down’.
MONITORING (SW) – Another radio station in Afghanistan went off the air for good due to the prevailing security and economic situation.
MONITORING (SW) – Rina Amiri, US Special Representative for Afghanistan’s Women and Human Rights, has said the Islamic Emirate must use the talents of women and girls to move toward stability and what its citizens deserve.
MONITORING (SW) – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved an expanded approach to support the people of Afghanistan based on the request of Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) donors and the international community.
