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Over 50 Afghan children contract unknown disease: Report
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 6 (ANI): More than 50 children in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province have contracted an unknown disease, according to local media.
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Taliban regime accountable for rise in illegal trafficking of children in
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 8 (ANI): Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, illegal trafficking of Afghan children and the illegal sale and purchase of goods is on a subsequent rise in the region.
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Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan 'nowhere' near over: Human rights activ
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 4 (ANI): Associate women's rights director and former senior Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch, Heather Barr, has said that the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is nowhere near over.
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More than half of Afghanistan's population depends upon Humanitarian assis
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 27 (ANI): Amid the deteriorating economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday said that more than half of the population of Afghanistan is dependent upon humanitarian assistance.
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Afghan refugees left in limbo as Taliban-Iran border tensions rise
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 4 (ANI): Afghans who sought refuge in Iran in the wake of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, are increasingly facing a risk of deportation by the Iranian authorities, amid the rising tensions at the desert border between the two countries, a media report
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UN chief urges int'l community to create conditions for cash injection in
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 28 (ANI): Expressing concern over the absence of cash in Afghanistan, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged the international community to create conditions conducive to injecting liquidity into the economy of the war-torn country, said a
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Distressed by penury, Afghan man sets himself on fire in Kabul
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 21 (ANI): A man in Kabul set himself on fire for being extremely impoverished following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, reported local media.
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Two in three children in Afghanistan not eating enough, says report
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 20 (ANI): With the country facing one of its worst food crises, about two in three children in Afghanistan - or 12 million - whose families depend on farming to survive, are struggling to get enough food to eat daily according to reports.
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West's economic sanctions on Taliban won't reform outfit: Report
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 19 (ANI): The economic sanctions approach that the West has adopted towards the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after its takeover of Kabul in August last year is neither helping the humanitarian situation in the country nor will reform the outfit in its outlook on s
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Former US ambassador to Afghanistan airs concern over rising humanitarian
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 17 (ANI): The former US diplomat to Afghanistan, Ross Wilson, has expressed concerns about the growing adversities in Afghanistan as the world turned a blind eye to the nation's situation amidst the rising Ukraine-Russia crisis.
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Blinken links Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan to 'serious erosion of hum
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 14 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday (local time) said that the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan has resulted in a "serious erosion of human rights" in the country.
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UNICEF distributes cash to Afghan families to ease humanitarian crisis
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 10 (ANI): Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said that they have distributed cash assistance to over 6,000 families in the central Daikundi province of the country to respond to the
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