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Taliban orders all NGOs in Afghanistan to stop employing women or face closure

December 30, 2024 admin

Representational image of a Taliban fighter standing guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan | Photo Credit: AP The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the…

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In A First Since Taliban Rule, Afghanistan Says To Attend UN Climate Talks

November 10, 2024 admin

An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power. Afghanistan is ranked as the country sixth most vulnerable to climate change and Taliban authorities have pushed to participate in COP summits, saying their…

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Survivors grapple with aid cuts and the Taliban a year after massive Afghan earthquake

October 6, 2024 admin

People had just seconds to flee their homes when the terrifying sound of earth cracking open reverberated across western Afghanistan’s Herat province. Nobody knows for sure how many people died in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on October 7, 2023, or in the strong aftershocks that followed. The Taliban government estimated that at least 4,000 perished….

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Phones, Islamic books and currency exchange: some businesses are making money out of Taliban rule

May 2, 2024 admin

Yunis Safi, a businessman in Kabul, knows very well the importance of showing off your phone if you want something done. Also read: Afghanistan since Taliban takeover “In Afghanistan, your phone is your personality,” he said, smiling, a jewel-encrusted ring on each hand. One boasts an emerald, the other a fat Russian diamond. “When you…

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