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Female students in Farah call on Taliban to reopen girls' schools
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
This comes as officials of the Department of Education in Farah said that around 3,500 female students are studying in 19 seminaries in the province, reported Tolo News.
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Germany pledges 90 million euros in aid for Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Germany on Friday announced a new aid package of 90 million euros to crisis-hit Afghanistan. This urgent assistance comes as the International Community of Red Crescent (ICRC) said that more than 24 million Afghans need immediate humanitarian aid, Tolo News reported.
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Closure of Spin Boldak crossing may increase food prices in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The closure of the Spin Boldak-Chaman crossing may increase the price of food in markets, Tolo News reported.
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Afghanistan: Economic crisis forces family in Balkh province to sell child
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A family in Afghanistan attempted to sell their child due to extreme poverty, Tolo news reported on Saturday. The two-year-old child was saved from getting sold after some locals in the province assisted the family.
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Afghanistan: Tribal elders call out Taliban to reopen girls' schools in Ni
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Tribal elders in Nimroz province of Afghanistan called out the Taliban to reopen schools for girls above the sixth grade and said that depriving young girls of education is not in the interest of the country, TOLO news reported.
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Astronomers spot largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glare of the Sun. These NEAs are part of an el
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New UNAMA chief Otunbayeva discusses rights to education, work for women w
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 21 (ANI): The new head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Roza Otunbayeva met with Afghan women leaders and discussed the key issues affecting women and girls amid the economic slump, ToloNews reported citing UN Assistant Mission in
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EU special envoy Niklasson calls for reopening of schools for Afghan girls
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 13 (ANI): Special envoy for European Union for Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson called for the reopening of schools for Afghan girls above grade six and said that the education of women is essential for progress in Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported.
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Afghan migrants deported forcefully accuse Turkey of mistreatment
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 28 (ANI): As Afghanistan continues to remain in the grip of a humanitarian crisis, numerous Afghan refugees who were sent back to Afghanistan from Turkey recently accused the country of mistreatment and complained of human rights violations, TOLOnews reported.
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90 pc Afghans in online poll supports reopening girls' schools as Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): About ninety per cent of voters in Afghanistan supported the reopening of schools for girls beyond grade six, and 10 per cent opposed the decision, as per an online poll conducted by Afghanistan's local media outlet TOLO news.
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Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar in Pakistan, says Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 15 (ANI): Talibani spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has denied that Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar was in Afghanistan, and said he is, in fact, in Pakistan, Afghanistan's local media outlet Tolo News said.
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Repression of media personnel continues in Afghanistan as Taliban detains
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 13 (ANI): Amid the ongoing crackdown on journalists in Afghanistan, another incident has come to light as a local journalist in the central province of Kapisa, Abdul Hanan Mohammadi has been detained by the Taliban for almost three months now without any crime,
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