Migration leading to depression, addiction
KABUL (SW) – On the border with Iran, the Nimroz province of Afghanistan is home to a number of aspiring migrants as well as dejected returnees and deportees.
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40 Afghans in EU saved from deportation since 2016
KABUL (SW) – Migration from Afghanistan surged in 2014 with the end of the NATO-led combat mission and departure of thousands of foreign troops.
Borrowing money on inflated interest to migrate
KABUL (SW) – To flee the ensuing violence and crippling poverty, many Afghan migrants even borrowed money on high interest rates just to flee from the country.
Continuing with the job of choice during migration
KABUL (SW) – Mohammad Aslam Taymour was an active media professional in Afghanistan before leaving the country about six years ago due to security concerns and settling in Switzerland.
A Helmandi youth’s tale of successful return from migration
LASHKARGAH (SW) – The phenomenon of migration caused by its push factors often has a set of problems and hardships, and even the threat of death with it, which only few migrants evade.
The enduring trauma of irregular migration
KUNAR (SW) – Evidently puzzled and shaken, Qiyas Qazi Khel of Kunar province still shivers when he remembers the difficult days of his irregular migration to Europe.
Return of over 500,000 migrants from Iran
QALAT (SW) – Amid the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Afghan migrants have been deported back to their war-ravaged country.
Irregular migration; a gamble for life and death
MAIMANA (SW) – Afghanistan remains among leading countries whose citizens continue to migrate regularly and irregularly in a large number for various reasons.
Afghan migrants in Turkey hope for success of peace parley
ISTANBUL (SW) – Salam Watandar has had a series of interviews with young Afghan migrants based in Turkey over the peace process in Afghanistan.
Afghan refugees lose jobs amid pandemic in Pakistan
KABUL (SW) – A significant number of Afghan migrants live in Pakistan where the spread of coronavirus has multiplied their difficulties.
Afghan migrants’ never ending quest for safe life
KABUL (SW) – In quest for a safe shelter and better living conditions, many Afghan citizens have been choosing the path of irregular migration that seldom helps end their sufferings.
War and poverty continue to drive youth out of country
Frightened by the escalating violence and lured by human smugglers, more and more youngsters are resorting to embark on the dangerous routes of irregular migration from Afghanistan.
