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New York: The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is worsening and funding for emergency aid is urgently needed to help 20 million people there, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday. more
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi ends trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, urges greater action to address children’s needs

Kabul: At the end of a four-day visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi stressed the need for greater action to meet the increasing needs of children ...

Afghanistan: Doctors demonstrate in Kabul over nonpayment of salaries for past 14 months

Kabul:  Hundreds of male and female doctors from Samangan and Nuristan provinces gathered at the gate of UNAMA in Kabul and demanded their salaries for the past 14  months to be ...

Afghanistan: Humanitarians call for greater support as winter approaches

New York: UN humanitarian agencies and their partners on Wednesday urged countries to honour their pledges to Afghanistan, as they rush to scale-up delivery of lifesaving aid ahead of the ...

Taliban Minister says graduates of 2000-2020 are of no use

Kabul: The Taliban government issued yet another bizarre diktat by which those who have graduated from high schools during the past twenty years are of no use.

Half of Afghanistan’s under-5s expected to suffer acute malnutrition

New York: An estimated 3.2 million Afghan children under five, are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of the year, UN agencies warned on Tuesday, adding that without im ...

Taliban extrajudicially killed 13 ethnic Hazaras in Aug: Amnesty International

Kabul/JEN: The Taliban 'unlawfully' killed 13 members of Hazara ethnic group, including a 17-year-old girl, in Afghanistan's Daykundi province on Aug 30, according to a latest ...

70 percent media outlets stopped working in Afghanistan amid Taliban takeover: Reports

Kabul:  National Association of Journalists (NAJ) in Kabul has said in Afghanistan  70 percent of media outlets have stopped working due to  financial problems as the Talib ...

Afghanistan: Women demonstrate in Kabul against closure of schools, universities for female students

Kabul: A group of Afghanistan women demonstrated in Kabul city on Friday to protest against the closure of schools and universities for female students.

Afghanistan: Draconian media rules set to further strangle media, says IFJ

Kabul:  On September 19, the interim director of the so-called Government Media and Information Centre (GMIC) announced 11 new media regulations for Afghanistan’s media industr ...