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One in five family sends children to work as incomes drop: Report
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Up to one-fifth of families in Afghanistan have been forced to send their children out to work as incomes have plummeted in the past six months with an estimated one million children now engaged in child labour, according to a humanitarian organization
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Taliban's acting health minister to leave for London to discuss humanitari
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Taliban's acting Minister of Public Health Qalandar Ebad will visit the United Kingdom and is believed to discuss humanitarian issues along with other relevant matters, Khaama Press reported citing sources on Monday.
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Taliban reacts to splitting funds, says reserve only belongs to the people
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): The Taliban on Sunday reacted to US president Joe Biden's decision to split USD 7 billion frozen assets of Afghanistan between 9/11 victims and humanitarian relief to Kabul.
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Raging measles outbreak killed 150 in Afghanistan in January: WHO
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 14 (ANI): Amid the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the raging measles outbreak infected tens of thousands and killed more than 150 people in Afghanistan last month, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Kabul hospital receives 8 malnourished children every day: UNICEF
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Amid the deepening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday expressed concern about the situation of malnourished children and informed that Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul receives
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US decision to split frozen funds for relief, 9/11 victims is injustice t
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 13 (ANI): Afghanistan's central bank on Saturday criticized the US decision to split USD 7 billion of the frozen Afghan assets fund between humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and said it is an "injusti
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Turkey sends humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], February 13 (ANI): A 45-wagon train carrying 921 tonnes of emergency goods has departed from Turkey as relief assistance from 16 humanitarian groups for Afghanistan.
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Number of internally displaced in Myanmar doubles, to 800,000: UN
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], February 13 (ANI): The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Myanmar has doubled since February last year, now crossing the 800,000 mark, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Friday.
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Pak calls for complete release of Afghanistan's assets after Biden split f
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 12 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar has called for the complete unfreezing of Afghanistan's assets after the Joe Biden-led administration in the United States decided to split the $7 billion Afghan assets.
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India supplies medical assistance to Iran as part of ongoing humanitarian
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 12 (ANI): India supplied medical assistance consisting of anti-Tuberculosis medicines, as part of its ongoing humanitarian assistance to Iran on February 12.
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BSF hands over Pakistani youth to Pak Rangers on humanitarian grounds
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 12 (ANI): As a goodwill gesture, Border Security Force (BSF) personnel handed over a Pakistani national to Pak Rangers on February 12, said BSF in its press release.
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Biden signs executive order to preserve certain Afghanistan central bank a
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 12 (ANI): As Afghanistan faces a worsening humanitarian and economic crisis, US President Joe Biden on Friday (local time) signed an Executive Order as part of an effort to set aside USD 3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets for the benefit of the Afghan people.
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