KABUL (SW) – Conflict and insecurity, grinding poverty exacerbated by an economy in freefall, severe drought and the COVID-19 pandemic have pushed Afghanistan to the brink of collapse, said a top UN official.
PUL-E-KHUMRI (SW) – Poverty has compelled a family in Baghlan province to sell off their three children to make ends meet.
MONITORING (SW) – Authorities in Tajikistan have rejected reports about granting China the right to establish a military base.
KABUL (SW) – Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan, Rashid Muradov met with Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund and Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaki here on Saturday.
KABUL (SW) – Findings by Salam Watandar indicate an overwhelming majority of social media users have hailed Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s latest message of facilitating the national cricket team on victory against Scotland in the ICC T20 cricket World Cup 2021.
MONITORING (SW) – The United States announced Thursday it is providing nearly $144 million in new humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, where millions of people could face acute hunger this winter unless aid arrives soon.
KABUL (SW) – Analysts believe the second meeting of foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries was for self-serving purpose of the parties involved in this moot in Tehran, Iran.
MONITORING (SW) – Zalmay Khalilzad, the senior U.S. official who led the negotiations with the Taliban, blamed, for the most part, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s “intransigence,” the Afghan elite’s “selfishness” and Afghan soldiers’ lack of will to fight for the rapid Taliban military takeover of the country in August.
MONITORING (SW) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday to resume financing support to cash-strapped Afghanistan for reconstruction.
KABUL (SW) – Press freedom advocates fear situation for journalists is getting worst amid lack of proper security and working climate in the country.
MONITORING (SW) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said that Afghanistan is becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and timely measures are needed to avert the catastrophe.
GARDEZ (SW) – Targeted assassinations under suspicious circumstances of the former government officials are on the rise in southeastern provinces.
