MONITORING (SW) – Decades of conflict, drought and the collapse of Afghanistan’s growing economy have created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis for children, said Paloma Escudero, the UNICEF’s Director for Global Communication and Advocacy.
KUNDUZ CITY (SW) – A young university graduate in Kunduz has set-up a workshop to teach young girls and women the skills of sewing.
KABUL (SW) – Pakistan’s top diplomat in Kabul has been summoned to record strong protest over aerial raid in Khost and mortar shelling in Kunar provinces.
MONITORING (SW) – The US State Department spokesman Ned Price has said the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate will face serious consequences if it does not reconsider the decision to close secondary schools and girls’ high schools ‘immediately’.
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations of the Islamic Emirate has announced that it will hold a quadripartite meeting to address the situation and problems of Afghan refugees in neighboring countries.
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.
KABUL (SW) – Authorities claim to have made progress towards reopening the girls’ schools across the country.
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.
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.
LASHKARGAH(SW) – Growing restrictions on press freedom and deteriorating economic circumstances are forcing local journalists to look for labour-intensive daily wage jobs across Afghanistan to make ends meet.
MONITORING (SW) – An official report released by the State Department has acknowledged a steep drop in human rights progress in Afghanistan following the United States’ withdrawal last August.
MONITORING (SW) – A New York Times opinion investigation reveals that nearly 500 former Afghan security forces and government officials were killed or forcibly disappeared during the Taliban’s first six months in power as the Islamic Emirate.
