MONITORING (SW) – The United Nations is proposing to pay nearly $6 million for protection in Afghanistan to Taliban-run Interior Ministry personnel, whose chief is under U.N. and U.S. sanctions and wanted by the FBI, according to a U.N. document and a source familiar with the matter.
MONITORING (SW) – The Government of Japan has decided to contribute a total of approximately 109 million US dollars from the FY2021 supplementary budget to Afghanistan and its neighboring countries to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
KABUL (SW) – Amir Khan Muttaghi, interim head of the Islamic Emirate’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had dubbed the extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Afghanistan as fruitful.
GARDEZ (SW) – A number of women in Paktia are calling on the authorities of the Islamic Emirate to provide women jobs in government departments as in the past.
MONITORING (SW) – Pakistan put forward a strategy for overcoming the Afghan humanitarian crisis during the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which kicked off in Islamabad on Sunday.
MONITORING (SW) – India seeks to work with Central Asian nations to help provide aid to Afghanistan and ensure a more representative government is in place there, India Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Sunday (Dec 19).
KABUL (SW) – Analysts believe the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate would need to do more for governance to earn international recognition.
MONITORING (SW) – Taking note of the Taliban’s victory over the US military in Afghanistan, the US Congress voted on Wednesday to create a commission to assess the 20-year war’s failures.
MAIMANA (SW) – A number of street vendors in Maimana, the capital of Faryab province say they are faced with a humanitarian catastrophe amid lack of jobs and income.
The Taliban, United States military, and Afghan security forces were all responsible for attacks that resulted in extensive civilian suffering before the country’s government collapsed earlier this year, Amnesty International said in a new report today
MONITORING (SW) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has decided against disciplining any members of the United States military for an August drone attack in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, the New York Times and several US news outlets reported on Monday.
MONITORING (SW) – Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women, a marked departure from their previous time in power, and seek the world’s “mercy and compassion” to help millions of Afghans in desperate need, a top Taliban leader said in a rare interview.
