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June 28, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Confirming that corruption is now a deep rooted malice in the country, a global corruption index has placed Afghanistan on 172nd spot in a list of 180 countries. The Global Corruption Report 2008 gives Afghanistan just 1.8 points out of a total score of 10. Full news...
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June 27, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Quqnoos: Residents claim US soldiers in Bagram airbase have turfed them off their land. More than 1,500 families have been forced to leave their homes near Bagram airbase because American officials on the base have cut off their water supply, residents say. Full news...
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June 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: A man named Farid, resident of Kabul was prosecuted publicly for stealing a sack of flour. Farid said that he had to earn for a family of thirteen and has done this act out of poverty. He said, “I had no work for 15 to 30 days. After about another 15 days I stole this to feed my children. I was desperate and forced to do so because of my family.” Full news...
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June 24, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian: Some Afghan villagers say that despite the contribution of billions of dollars to this country in the past six years, their lives have not even changed slightly. They said that corruption had caused a lot of money that was supposed to be used in economical projects to come into the hands of a few people. Full news...
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June 23, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The National: Low salaries are forcing many of Afghanistan’s teachers to take on second jobs so they can feed their families. Despite promises that their wages would be increased, schoolteachers in Kabul said there have been few improvements since the US-led invasion in 2001. Full news...
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June 22, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Officials in western Ghor province said thousands people face life threatening hunger due to drought and lack of food items. They warned if food stuff did not arrive on time a humanitarian disaster might take place. Full news...
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June 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Thousands of families in the south and north of Zaranj (capital city of Nimroz) are faced with shortage of drinking water and most of them have to buy water. More than 20 thousand people in the south of the city of Zaranj have been facing shortage of water for the past ten days. They demanded the solution for this problem urgently. Full news...
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June 20, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: The worsening security situation, unemployment, the food crisis, drought, shelter problems and lack of socio-economic opportunities may force some Afghans who have returned to their country in the past six years to cross international borders again in search of a better life, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Refugees and Repartition (MoRR) warned. Full news...
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June 19, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sky News: For many citizens of this, one of the poorest countries on the planet, life is still exceedingly tough and it is no exaggeration to say they have a daily struggle to survive. No jobs, no money and hope fading fast. "Afghanistan cannot be rebuilt with corrupt people," says Malalai Joya, expelled MP. "Our Government is undemocratic. We have a mafia system where drug lords and war lords are in power with the mask of democracy." Full news...
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June 19, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: "I have cousins in Kabul whom I have never met. But then I also hear that the city is still full of broken buildings, that living costs there are very high and that there is a great deal of insecurity," Ghazala told IRIN. She is torn between wishing to see the city her parents talk nostalgically of, and staying on in Peshawar, where she now has roots. Full news...
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June 17, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Quqnoos: Clashes between Kuchi nomads and ethnic Hazaras in Maydan Wardak have killed 13 people and wounded a further 30, according to a local Member of Parliament. Both sides have blamed each other for the fighting, which started on Sunday in the province’s Behsud district. Full news...
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June 14, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: The girl was 11 when she was molested by a man with no legs. The man paid her $5. And that was how she started selling sex. Afghanistan is one of the world's most conservative countries, yet its sex trade appears to be thriving. Sex is sold most obviously at brothels full of women from China who serve both Afghans and foreigners. Far more controversial are Afghan prostitutes, who stay underground in a society that pretends they don't exist. Full news...
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June 13, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: After U.S.-led forces drove the Taliban militia out of power in 2001, donor nations poured $15 billion into the impoverished central Asian country, struggling to emerge from three decades of conflict, yet still on the frontline of a war against terrorism. "We know that millions of dollars have been donated to Afghanistan during Karzai's government, but it hasn't directly affected normal people's life," said Karima Sediqi, a teacher on her way to work in the West of Kabul. Full news...
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June 12, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: High food prices and drought have driven over one million vulnerable people across Afghanistan into “high-risk” food-insecurity in the past five months, increasing the total number of “most vulnerable people” to over 3.5 million, the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), told IRIN. Full news...
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June 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Billions of dollars of aid to Afghanistan have not been spent effectively and the Afghan government and international agencies must be held to account or more will be wasted, an independent watchdog said on Monday. Full news...
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June 8, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Observer: The other Afghanistan is largely ignored. This has 30 million people in whose name the war is being fought. Its themes are disappointment, bitterness and pessimism: a conviction that the vast intervention to rebuild the world's fourth poorest country has benefited only a small handful, and Afghanistan is heading for a new crisis. As even some Western diplomats are beginning to acknowledge, the prevailing fear is that the war is in danger not of being lost or won in Helmand province, but in the perceptions of Afghans. Full news...
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June 7, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than six million children in the country face problems such as smuggling, abduction, performing harsh jobs and get no education. He said that all governmental organizations should pay serious attention to administer justice for children, make education available, make health services accessible, make better their financial conditions and prevent the smuggling of children. Full news...
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June 6, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
On Line Opinion: The Afghan occupation is in its seventh year, and resistance to the occupation has not abated. According to the US National Intelligence director the US puppet regime of Hamid Karzai exerts control over no more than 30 per cent of the country. The situation for women has not improved since the US led invasion, in fact quite the contrary. Full news...
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June 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian: Thousands of villagers of the Balkh province in North Afghanistan have settled in a desert near the Sholgira River after losing their cattle and cultivating lands. These villagers have come to this river (which is in the south of Mazar-e-Sharif) in groups from the villages of Alabraz so that “at least they have access to water”. They have either come on foot or on their animals like donkeys. Full news...
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June 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Chicago Tribune: Faced with skyrocketing food prices and no job, Mohammad Daud decided he had suffered enough. The 27-year-old swallowed 100 sleeping pills and died. His decision late last month reflects panic in this war-torn country over the price of food, especially wheat, the staple of the Afghan diet. Afghanistan, landlocked and drought-ridden, depends on aid and food imports to survive, and the world's food crisis has hit hard. Full news...
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June 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The once largest Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Jalozai, has been closed down and most of its residents have returned to Afghanistan, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said. More than 120,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan, almost half from Jalozai, since March 2008, with UNHCR assistance. Full news...
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June 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera has discovered that thousands of children, some as young as aged four, are being forced to work in brick factories in Afghanistan. In the Sokhrod district in the east of the country, which is well known for producing bricks, there are about 38 factories and about 2,200 children are believed to be working in them. Full news...
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May 29, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two children, after eating grass for a month together with their parents due to lack of food, have died in the northern Samangan province, government and human rights officials said on Thursday. Full news...
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May 28, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Not observing the pause between births, early marriages, not going to healthcare centers, being in contact with other diseases are the causes of increase in the number of women with tuberculosis in the country. According to the information of the Ministry of Public Health, last year about 40,000 women had this disease and about 8,500 of them died. 70% of the people with this disease were women. Full news...
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May 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Tolo TV: Drought in Northern Afghanistan killed nine people in Samangan province. According to reports no welfare organizations inside or outside Afghanistan have helped these people as yet. Meanwhile, the local authorities have asked aid organizations and the authorities in the capital to pay serious attention to the families in this province or Northern Afghanistan will face huge disasters. Full news...
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May 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Observer: Afghanistan, struggling with a huge indigenous drug problem, has a new crisis. Its drug treatment centres - particularly in the capital, Kabul - are being inundated by heroin-addicted former refugees, many forcibly expelled from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan. 'The biggest problem now is the returning addicts. It is a tsunami coming to this country,' Suliman said. Full news...
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May 25, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: A young boy in Kabul committed suicide by eating 100 Phenobarbatone tablets. The neighbors said that he was the bread winner of a very large family and also had the responsibility of feeding his orphan nieces and nephews. One person said, “Because there were no jobs he was left unemployed. This is a major problem and our government has the responsibility to provide jobs for our youngsters." Full news...
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May 23, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: 55-year old Gul Murad lived a life of poverty in the Zedori village with his wife Anar Gul and eight children. Gul Murad had not had food for four days and died. When the people were burying him his wife went unconscious. When she was being taken to the Mazar-e-Sharif Hospital for treatment, she died on the way. At first the people thought she had died of the sadness caused by her husband’s death but later found out that she too had not eaten anything for days and had died of hunger. Full news...
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May 22, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Toronto Star: Three decades of war, millions of mines and unexploded ordinance (UXO) for children to trip over, suicide bombers, birth defects due to clannish intermarriage, congenital disabilities never corrected for lack of health care, ordinary ailments left untreated and the vast afflicted detritus accrued from preventable diseases such as polio, to say nothing of inestimable psychological trauma: Afghanistan is a wasteland of the mutilated and crippled. Full news...
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May 19, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: When 19-year-old Fatima returned to her home in northern Afghanistan after years as a refugee in Iran, she struggled desperately to earn a living. She briefly found work with an NGO, before being let go, and then spent two months learning how to weave carpets, before the factory shut down and she was again out on the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif. Full news...
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