MONITORING (SW) – The International Committee of Red Cross has warned that the access to health care remains a major concern for a vast majority of Afghans as thousands of health facilities have closed or are not functioning anymore, and most people can’t afford treatment in private clinics anymore nor travel to neighbouring countries.
MONITORING (SW) – Pakistan’s prime minister will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, officials have said, as the prospect of a Russian invasion of Ukraine seems imminent.
MONITORING (SW) – In recent years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been able to improve patients’ experiences of care for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), but the changing political situation threatens to derail this progress, writes Anita Mesic, MSF tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and hepatitis adviser.
MONITORING (SW) – Four-and-a-half months after India proposed to Pakistan that it wants to send wheat for the people of Afghanistan, the first consignment of about 2,000 metric tonnes of the grain, laden in about 50 trucks, will roll out on Tuesday.
MONITORING (SW) – At least 24.4 million people in Afghanistan are in need of humanitarian assistance, which is a 30% increase from a year ago, said the International Committee of the Red Cross.
KABUL (SW) – All female government employees have been advised by the Ministry of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil of the Islamic Emirate to either wear the hijab or quit.
KABUL (SW) – Thousands of ‘undesirable’ individuals have been sacked and removed from the ranks of the security forces, said a senior Islamic Emirate official on Monday.
BAMYAN (SW) – Dozens of Bamyan residents took to the streets on Monday demanding the US to unfreeze Afghan state assets.
MONITORING (SW) – The west has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country, according to David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee.
KABUL (SW) -The state-owned bread factory ‘Silo Markazi’ in Kabul, has been reactivated and has resumed production after decades of production stoppage.
KANDAHAR CITY (SW) – Journalists were not allowed to cover the protest demonstration by the friends and relatives of the woman killed in a Kandahar a day earlier by the security forces of the Islamic Emirate.
GHAZNI CITY (SW) – Sporting activities would be spread all over the country, said the physical education and sports director Zar Mohammad Motmaeen.
