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January 10, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: The majority of Afghan youths have picked deteriorating economic situation among the top challenges they face, putting aside the political and security challenges the country is facing currently. According to a latest poll report by Democracy International, up to 82 percent of the Afghan youths believe unemployment and poverty are the most serious challenges they are facing. Full news...
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December 26, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The United Nation’s Human Development Office has ranked Afghanistan as 171, out of 188 countries, in the human development index. The report has measured countries’ development based on gender inequality, maternal mortality ratio, adolescent birth rate, share of seats in parliament, population with at least some secondary education and the labor force participation rate. Full news...
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October 2, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The unemployment rate has peaked to 40 percent in Afghanistan, showing a 15 percent increase as compared to the same time last year, officials said Friday. According to Central Statistics Organization (CSO), the unemployment figure for 2015 was only 25 percent. Insecurity, lack of jobs in government and the private sector organizations and a downturn of industries are the main factors behind growing unemployment, CSO officials said. Full news...
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August 16, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Mohammad Naser, Kabul, who considers himself an activist, blames the national unity government for all the present problems. “Problems increased in all areas – for instance security, lack of employment, poor health and social services – as soon as the government came into being. I don’t think anyone is satisfied with this government,” he says. Full news...
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June 21, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Samiaullah Aminzai, a resident of Nangarhar province, says the worsening violence and economic situation have forced hundreds of families to move to other parts of the country and abroad. He says that his aunt’s son Sulaiman first went to Iran and then to Turkey, and now he is in Greece. He was smuggled into Greece by human traffickers, he confides. His plan is to make his way into mainland Europe, and then send for his family. Full news...
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June 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Participants in a series of IWPR-organised debates said that many Afghan children are forced into hard physical labour in order to support their families, and miss out on education as a result. The discussion events held in Nangarhar, Paktia and Helmand provinces heard that children’s basic rights were often ignored. Full news...
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May 21, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Sixty percent of Afghan workers are jobless, and those who are employed rarely have the assurance of regular working hours in a safe environment. Maroof Qaderi, the head of the Labour Union of Afghanistan says ILO (International Labour Organisation) and CSO (Central Statistic Office) figures show 12 million people qualify as workers in the country. Full news...
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May 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: On Labour Day, hundreds of labourers on Friday staged a protest demonstration in the capital Kabul, demanding work opportunities. The rally was organized by the National Labour Union aimed at pressing the government to increase wages of labourers. Mohammad Maroof Qadari, the NLU leader, asked the government to implement labour laws, increase salaries of government officials and facilitate workers. Full news...
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February 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Afghanistan’s high rate of unemployment is driving young men into the arms of insurgent groups, speakers at a series of recent IWPR-organised debates agreed. Participants in Paktika, Kunar and Helmand provinces all said that young men often had so few employment options that some travelled illegally to Pakistan or Iran to find work, while others joined an insurgent group. Full news...
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January 23, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: There is a terrifying enemy threatening civilians in war-torn Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. This is another foe besides the Taliban, Al Qaeda, the Syrian regime or ISIS. It’s a silent menace that may yet be the most powerful. It is hunger. Millions in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq are suffering each day from the lack of food. Malnutrition claims the lives of infants. Those who survive are stunted physically and mentally for life. Full news...
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January 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Central Statistics Office on Tuesday expressed its concern over lack of civic services in Kabul, putting the capital’s population at 4.2 million, most of them unemployed. The findings came in a survey that was conducted with technical support from the UN Population Fund (UNPF) in 2013. Announced today, the study covered 30 districts, including 3,068 areas. Full news...
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December 15, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: The Ashraf Ghani government’s failure to restore investor confidence by announcing a cabinet and ending political uncertainty has worsened fears of insecurity. With no clear end to the grave economic crisis in the country, millions of jobless Afghans face a bleak future. The National Labour Union (NLU) estimates there are 12 million unemployed. Maroof Qaderi, the chairman, accuses the government of failing people. Full news...
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November 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Abdullah’s wails of pain are punctuated only by his rasping cough. His arms bound to his body, he is five months old but weighs just 3.2kg, lighter than some newborns. In the next bed, three-month old Shukoria looks withered and worn, her face wrinkled and pained. Both are suffering from malnutrition, which affects more than 40 percent of Afghan children, killing thousands every year and leaving millions with permanent disabilities. Full news...
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September 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Widows of victims of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan have resorted to begging in the streets with their young children forced to do odd jobs in order to survive. This was the harsh reality that the Afghan government has to face as it observed starting Tuesday Haftai Shahid or Martyrs Week to pay homage to Afghans who have lost their lives during the protracted war and instability in Afghanistan. Full news...
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August 24, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: International Insanity In Afghanistan almost twelve million Afghans live in poverty. Nine million suffer hunger and are in danger of starving. On August 18, the European Union (EU) decided to set aside 125 million euros (167 million USD) to compensate producers for throwing away perishable food items. Full news...
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July 29, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Traditionally, after a month of fasting known as the holy month of Ramadan, the Muslim community celebrates EID days. Normally EID days are for visiting family, relatives and friends and sharing happiness and forgiveness while forgetting any sadness or conflicts. Full news...
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July 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Hambastagi.org (Translated by RAWA): Poverty and hunger can be seen on 50-year-old Ghulam Rasool’s wrinkled face and dry lips from a distance. He lives in Dashte Barchi and is the only one who earns for his family of nine. One of his feet is crippled. He sells smokeless tobacco to feed his children. Full news...
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July 2, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The cost of health care is throwing many poor Afghans into a cycle of debt. While most now have access to basic public health care, the quality is so low that many patients seek out private services at a higher cost than they can afford - driving some of them further into poverty. Full news...
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July 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: It may not be true in urban cities in other parts of the world but children in this capital city of Afghanistan are forced to work instead of being in school. Mohammad Din, 10, is one of those poor Afghan children who are forced to work the whole day in a brick factory in Kabul to earn bread for their families. Full news...
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February 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 20-year-old man has committed suicide because of economic problems and unemployment in the Burka district of northern Baghlan province. A school graduate, Shafiullah, shot himself to death with a pistol, his cousin Mohammad Nasir told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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February 12, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today launched this year’s Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) in Kabul, Afghanistan, identifying a worsening humanitarian situation but reducing the appeal to 406 million USD from last year’s 474 million USD. “At the start of 2014, Afghanistan faces an uncertain future, where the political and security transitions are bound to bring about major changes to the country and its people,” said the Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, Mark Bowden, speaking at the launch event. Full news...
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February 6, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Two weeks ago in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people, working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers and a few visiting internationals like myself, to discuss world hunger. Our emphasis was not exclusively on their own country’s worsening hunger problems. The Afghan Peace Volunteers, in whose home we were meeting, draw strength from looking beyond their own very real struggles. Full news...
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February 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FirstNews: Across the country over the past few weeks, children have been seen waiting for hours at donation points. Research by the United Nations global peace organisation suggests that 55% – more than half – of children in Afghanistan are failing to grow or develop properly. Experts say that this is because young people in the country are often not given enough food in the first two years of their lives. Full news...
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January 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Thousands of homeless Afghans are huddling on the sides of freezing roads this winter with little shelter and nothing to eat, not far from warehouses stuffed with food. The government’s inability to help - through mismanagement, corruption, or factors beyond its control - threatens the future of a united Afghanistan after an April presidential election and the withdrawal of foreign combat troops by the end of this year. Full news...
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January 15, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Painting a grim picture of the Afghan economy, the World Bank (WB) on Wednesday estimated the country’s growth rate at 3.1 percent in the year 2013; which is a sharp drop from 14.4 percent in the previous year. “Growth in Afghanistan weakened sharply to an estimated 3.1 percent in 2013 from an exceptionally high 14.4 percent in 2012,” the WB said in its Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report released Wednesday. Full news...
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January 4, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: In the Bost Hospital here, a teenage mother named Bibi Sherina sits on a bed in the severe acute malnutrition ward with her two children. Ahmed, at just 3 months old, looks bigger than his emaciated brother Mohammad, who is a year and a half and weighs 10 pounds. Full news...
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January 4, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Begging on the street has spawned a vicious practice: beggar mafia are renting children in Kabul, and drugging them with opium to ply their trade. Afghan cities are seeing Pakistani beggars in the summer. The government outlawed street-begging in November 2008 and set up a commission - made up of different government bodies and the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) - to end street-begging in the capital but it has not helped. Full news...
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December 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce & Industries reports more than a quarter of manufacturing units have closed in the last two years. A Killid investigation. Azerakhsh Hafezi, in-charge of international relations at the Chamber, criticises the government for not having a proper programme to support domestic industrial production. "Factories are closing because the government does not have a programme to support ailing industries. Full news...
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November 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 13-year-old son of an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier, who lost both his legs to a roadside bombing, says Taliban daily come to his shoemaking shop in the Batikot district of Nangarhar province and snatch his earning. Nizam said his father lost his legs during a patrol in eastern Kunar province, an incident that changed his life. His father would feed his family until he was not disabled. Full news...
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November 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Traders and importers have combined to hike the price of cooking gas and other fuel for heating as winter begins to bite. Consumers are feeling the pinch of the rivalry between the Association of Oil Importers and the Ghazanfar Group. Corruption at the customs on the border, a hike in taxes and the blocking of Ghazanfar refinery has sent fuel prices zooming. Full news...
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