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Afghanistan: People of Helmand request aid as violence-hit province suffer
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 25 (ANI): Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the residents of Helmand Province have requested financial aid to re-build the demolished homes as the Taliban regime and conflicts have resulted in financial difficulties for the people in the coun
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World Food Program, UN express concern over food insecurity, economic cris
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 11 (ANI): World Food Program (WFP) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan condemned the ongoing economic crisis in Afghanistan as people in the country are on the brink of starvation and facing pove
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Afghan delegation to discuss humanitarian crisis in Vienna
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 7 (ANI): At least thirty-one political and intellectual figures from Afghanistan will discuss the ongoing political as well as humanitarian crisis and put forward a critical perspective on the Taliban's rule in a Vienna meeting which is scheduled to take place
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UN chief raises concern over closure of schools for girls in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 3 (ANI): Calling the closure of schools for girls in Afghanistan "unjustifiable", the UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has raised his concern and said that there is a violation of women's rights.
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Blinken, EU counterpart discuss Afghanistan crisis, global health
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 1 (ANI/Sputnik): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell on Thursday discussed by telephone the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan and global health, State Department spokesperson Ned Price sa
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Charter flight carrying 324 Afghan refugees arrives in Canada's Winnipeg
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 28 (ANI): As part of the evacuation of Afghan refugees, a plane carrying 324 people from Pakistan landed in Winnipeg, the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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Kabul residents lack drinking water due to plunging groundwater levels
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 27 (ANI): Due to plunging groundwater levels, several provinces of Afghanistan have been facing a critical issue of availability of potable water as a lack of drinking water has become a challenge for Kabul residents.
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Women's rights crisis in Afghanistan has few parallels in the world
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 16 (ANI): A year has passed since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan following a rapid drawdown of Western forces that pushed the country into a number of crises which transformed the country fundamentally.
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Overlapping food, debt crisis in Afghanistan can have devastating impacts:
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 9 (ANI): Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the country is under a massive humanitarian crisis and is currently at the greatest risk of overlapping food and debt crises, a report by the World Bank stated recently.
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Afghanistan: Student enrollment in Kunduz province's private universities
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 1 (ANI): Amid the worsening economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the total number of students enrolled in the private universities in the Kunduz province has dropped by 65 per cent in recent months, as per the Union of Private Universities.
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Afghanistan: Economic crisis forces families and children to work in brick
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 25 (ANI): Due to looming economic problems, post the Taliban took over Afghanistan, a number of families and children in order to feed themselves are forced to work in brick factories.
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Consensus on non-recognition of Taliban govt in western world: EU envoy to
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 23 (ANI): While discussing the situation in Afghanistan and the increasing hunger crisis in the country, the EU Ambassador to Afghanistan, Andreas Von Brandt said that there is a consensus on the non-recognition of the Taliban government in the western world.
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