Since the fall of Kabul in August and the withdrawal of U.S. troops, the international economy has withdrawn from the Taliban-controlled government , resulting in extensive poverty and the collapse of key public services such as health care. Widespread hunger, a crippled economy and a population in desperate need of assistance. Afghanistan is in the midst […]
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After the Taliban taking over the capital of Kabul , they have continuously to deny the fundamental right to secondary and tertiary education, arguing that women and men must be segregated and that female students have to abide by a specific dress code, this has increased risk of exploitation of women and girls, including of trafficking
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi traveled to Kabul to discuss the situation at the Chaman border crossing and to solve border issues affecting movement and trade, one of the main trade transit points between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The crossing has been closed for weeks now causing severe damage to exporters.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP), revealed that the lives, livelihoods and access to food for 22.8 million people will be severely impacted due to the combined shocks of drought, conflict, COVID-19 and an economic crisis in Afghanistan. The FAO in Afghanistan said on Twitter that “Half of Afghanistan’s population face acute
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UN teams have been providing communities with access to water and sanitation, as well as protection services in Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan, stressed that while the UN remains “determined to deliver”, more funding is needed to reach millions who depend on aid to survive. He reported that more
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The UN rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani at a briefing on Friday in Geneva said “We call on the Taliban to immediately cease the use of force towards and the arbitrary detention of those exercising their right to peaceful assembly and the journalists covering the protests.” following the events where members of the armed group used
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Thousands of boys and girls have been killed or injured over the past two years in Afghanistan, according to the latest UN report on Children and Armed Conflict, which was issued on Monday, A day after the Taliban consolidated control over the country.
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Esther Anyakun, Uganda’s state minister for relief, disaster preparedness, and refugees, said “They have requested us to host 2,000 refugees. We are expecting them to be brought in shifts of 500. So, UNHCR secured Imperial hotels in Entebbe as a transit center for them to, first of all, arrive and be screened,”.
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UNHCR spokesperson, Babar Baloch, is warning of a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the escalating conflict brings the number of civilian casualties to 29 percent during the first quarter of this year, among those most targeted groups is that of women and children. Failure to reach a peace agreement in Afghanistan and stem the current
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As the United States and its NATO allies withdraw their final troops and contractors, ending America’s longest-ever war, fears are growing about what happens to the country after. Female teachers, students, and local officials in Taliban-controlled areas say that the Taliban group has over the last year already cut access to school for thousands of
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