Category: Governance

Isolation of economy leading to extremism threats to Afghanistan, region

MONITORING (SW) – The isolation of the Afghan economy following last August’s political crisis risks erasing development gains achieved over the past two decades, leading to grave poverty, displacement, fragility, and extremism threats to Afghanistan, the region, and the world, says the World Bank’s new Afghanistan Development Update.

Da Afghanistan Bank announces lifting restrictions

KABUL (SW) – The Da Afghanistan Bank has announced that restrictions on the salaries of government and non-government employees have been lifted in accordance with the strategic restructuring plan for the financial and banking sector.

Call for ‘urgent action’ to defend journalist, press freedom in Afghanistan

MONITORING (SW) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written to Richard Bennett, the UN’s new special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, calling for urgent action to defend journalists and press freedom in Afghanistan, where arbitrary arrests are on the rise and a climate of fear has taken hold in all media outlets.