Afghanistan: WFP forced to cut food aid for 2 million more

Afghanistan: WFP forced to cut food aid for 2 million more

Forced to take the drastic measures citing a “massive funding shortfall”, WFP will only be able to provide emergency assistance to three million people per month across the country from October. “Amid already worrying levels of hunger and malnutrition, we are obliged to choose between the hungry and the starving, leaving millions of families scrambling for their…

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The World Health Organization expressed concern over the spread of polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan

The World Health Organization expressed concern over the spread of polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan

File photo The Polio Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the spread of polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Polio Emergency Committee has said that the threat of polio spread in Pakistan still remains, a large number of children in Pakistan are still deprived of drinking polio drops. WHO…

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Keep pressuring Afghanistan amid ‘unparalleled assault’ on women’s rights

Keep pressuring Afghanistan amid ‘unparalleled assault’ on women’s rights

Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, made the appeal in a statement marking two years since the Taliban regained control of the country. ‘Gender apartheid’ “Through over 50 edicts, orders and restrictions, the Taliban have left no aspect of women’s lives untouched, no freedom spared.  They have created a system founded on the mass…

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Floods wreak havoc in Afghanistan; 26 dead and 40 missing

Floods wreak havoc in Afghanistan; 26 dead and 40 missing

Two days of rains have wreaked havoc in Afghanistan; 35 casualties (Photo: File) bill to: Floods following incessant rains in Afghanistan’s central provinces left 26 people dead and 40 missing. According to the international news organization, Shafiullah Rahimi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Disaster Management of the Taliban government, said that the continuous rains…

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Afghan authorities also send pomegranate juice from Afghanistan to other countries including Pakistan

Afghan authorities also send pomegranate juice from Afghanistan to other countries including Pakistan

Photo Courtesy: Ariana News, Twitter. Pomegranate juice produced in Afghanistan was exported to America for the first time. According to the Afghan media from Kabul, the juice produced in the factory in the Afghan province of Herat is being exported to the United States. Afghan officials say that two containers of 45 tons of pomegranate…

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