A delegation of OIC scholars will go to Afghanistan for talks on women's education and employment

A delegation of OIC scholars will go to Afghanistan for talks on women’s education and employment

Secretary General of OIC is addressing the meeting. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will send a delegation of scholars to Afghanistan for negotiations regarding women’s education and employment in Afghanistan. OIC Secretary General Hussain Ibrahim Taha said that discussions are ongoing with the relevant authorities of Afghanistan with the support of the International Jurisprudence…

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Funding drought forces UN food agency to cut rations in Afghanistan

Funding drought forces UN food agency to cut rations in Afghanistan

The World Food Programme (WFP) appealed for urgent funding for its operations in the country, where families are battling crisis after crisis, including growing hunger, since the Taliban takeover of 2021. Catastrophic hunger could become widespread across Afghanistan, and unless humanitarian support is sustained, hundreds of thousands more people will need assistance to survive, the…

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Afghanistan: 8 people including 5 journalists were killed in a bomb blast at a cultural center

Afghanistan: 8 people including 5 journalists were killed in a bomb blast at a cultural center

Mazar-e-Sharif: 8 people were killed and many were injured in a bomb blast during an event for journalists in Afghanistan. According to foreign news agency Reuters, eight people, including five journalists, were killed as a result of a bomb blast during an event held by journalists at a cultural center in the Mazar-e-Sharif district of…

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Afghanistan now ‘most repressive country’ for women, Security Council hears

Afghanistan now ‘most repressive country’ for women, Security Council hears

Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, UN Special Representative and head of the UN’s Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, strongly condemned recent Taliban decrees that have further eroded the rights of Afghan women. However, she also urged the international community to preserve “whatever political space exists” for frank discussions with Afghanistan’s leaders, warning of rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and…

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Universities opened in Afghanistan;  The ban on female students remains

Universities opened in Afghanistan; The ban on female students remains

Taliban banned female students in universities last year; Photo: File bill to: Universities in Afghanistan opened after the winter holidays, but Taliban security officials prevented female students from entering. According to the World News Agency, the Taliban banned women’s university education in August last year, saying that the Ministry of Higher Education was working to…

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Afghanistan;  6 terrorists of the outlawed TTP were killed in a landmine blast

Afghanistan; 6 terrorists of the outlawed TTP were killed in a landmine blast

bill to: 6 terrorists including the main commander of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan were killed and 15 were seriously injured in Afghanistan’s Khost province. According to the sources, those killed in the mine blast have been identified as Abdul Manan, Alam Khan Mudakhel, Kajir, while there are three unknown terrorists whose identification is in progress. Among…

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Afghanistan still a grave humanitarian crisis, senior aid official says

Afghanistan still a grave humanitarian crisis, senior aid official says

Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, updated journalists in New York on developments in a country where 28 million people now depend on aid to survive.  Immense humanitarian needs  “Afghanistan remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in 2023, notwithstanding, of course, the recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria,” he…

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