Kabul, May 12 (IANS) The United Nations has stated that hunger and food security are deteriorating in Afghanistan, with women and children facing the most consequences amid economic and humanitarian challenges, local media reported on Tuesday. The UN agencies said that Afghanistan continue to face problems due to overlapping crises, including economic collapse, unemployment and climate-related shocks that have impacted livelihoods across the country. Increasing regional tensions have caused an i…
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Kabul, May 11 (IANS) Around 2,000 families have been affected by the recent floods in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said, local media reported on Monday. The IOM said emergency relief items have been given to impacted families as humanitarian teams continued assessing urgent needs in flood-affected people, Afghanistan’s leading news agency Khaama Press reported.The agency said many people lost homes, agricultural land and household property …
Tehran, April 23, (IANS) At least five people have died and hundreds of homes destroyed after flash floods struck West Afghanistan provinces of Ghor and Badghis, local media in the country reported on Thursday citing information confirmation from various authorities. Five people, including a woman in the Badghis province, were killed in the floods. Three of the victims belonged to the same family, Pajhwok news agency quoted Baridad Saber, head of the Disaster Preparedness Department in Badghis, …
Kabul, April 2 (IANS) Afghanistan’s Minister of Economy, Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said on Thursday that more than 27,000 Afghan families across nine provinces have been displaced due to attacks carried out by Pakistan’s military, local media reported. During a coordination meeting with officials from the United Nations agencies and national and international organisations on Thursday, Hanif said that Pakistan has carried out hostile actions against Afghanistan in recent months, Afghanistan-based …
Kabul, March 30 (IANS) As many as 28 people were killed and 49 others were injured due to heavy rains, floods and lightning in several provinces of Afghanistan since February 26, according to the Disaster Preparedness Authority spokesperson Mohammad Yousuf Hamad, local media reported on Monday. Hamad said that the affected provinces include Kandahar, Helmand, Herat, Ghor, Kabul, Kapisa, Parwan, Panjshir, Jawzjan, Faryab, Badakhshan, Bamyan, Daikundi, Paktia, Paktika, Logar, Zabul, Balkh, Badghis…
Kabul, Jan 13 (IANS) Afghan security forces uncovered and torched three clandestine heroin processing laboratories and a large amount of illicit drugs in western Farah and southern Helmand provinces, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said in separate statements on Tuesday. Counter-narcotics units carried out targeted operations on the outskirts of the two provinces, destroying the facilities and recovering substantial quantities of substances used in heroin production, according to the ministry’s…