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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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November 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Child labour is rampant in Afghanistan. Many children are forced by circumstances to do hard labour for a trifling wage. They risk long-term health problems, even death. For most children a normal childhood and school are distant dreams.An Independent Media Consortium (IMC) investigation*. On the basis of information provided by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD) there are 1.9 million working children in the country. Full news...
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October 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghanistan has been placed among the world’s saddest nations in the latest “Prosperity Index” issued by a global organisation on Thursday. The latest five-year index -- released by the London-based Legatum Institute -- placed Afghanistan 139 in its rankings, reflecting the overall wealth, health and happiness of countries. Full news...
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October 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Hundreds of men, some on crutches, all wearing tattered clothing, gather shortly before dawn at major intersections throughout Kabul and other Afghan cities. Displaying primitive tools such as a level or a trowel, they seek labor that is often backbreaking, always temporary and will earn just a few dollars for a day’s work. Full news...
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August 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Big weddings and bigger dowries -- the bane of Afghan society -- are responsible for serious and widespread social problems, reveals an Independent Media Consortium Productions (IMCP) investigation. Bridegrooms bear the cost of lavish marriage celebrations that include pre-wedding parties, dowry or money for the bride’s family and Sharia Mahr, for the bride. Full news...
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July 7, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Stars and Stripes: A new and dreaded word has crept into the local lingo of this bustling town in the shadow of one of NATO’s main logistical hubs: “layoff.” It was inevitable that thousands of civilian employees would be made redundant as NATO’s military operation in Afghanistan winds down after nearly 12 years of war. Full news...
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May 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A top human rights organization on Wednesday said thousands of Afghan civilians continue to suffer from “targeted and indiscriminate attacks” by armed militant groups. Amnesty International, in its global review of human rights issues, said quoted figures from the UN, which held militants responsible for 80 percent of the 2,700 civilians killed last year. Full news...
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April 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The special People on Monday staged a protest in front of the Presidential Palace in Kabul, seeking their rights land plots. More than 200 physicall challenged individuals marched from Deh Afghanan area and gathered near the Zambaq Square in front of President Hamid Karzai’s office. Full news...
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March 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Badakhshan -a beautiful province of Afghanistan nestled in the lap of Hindu-Kush Mountains is surrounded by gorgeous snow-caped mountains, splendid green valleys, turbulent rivers and fascinating lakes. Badakhshan came in the limelight of both national and international media in 2002, when the Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan discovered that Badakhshan had the highest rate of maternal mortality in the world: 6,500 out of every 100,000 women die during child birth. Full news...
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March 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Research: The United States has spent over 600 billion USD on its Afghan war effort, but most of the money has gone to military infrastructure and sophisticated weaponry; little of it has gone to the education of Afghan youth or to addressing the degradation of Afghan land. The children I am working with had never heard the word ‘ecology.’ Full news...
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March 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Channel 4 News: It has come to this. A woman sits in the mud and puddles. The snow falls relentlessly. It is minus 6 degrees, even at 11 in the morning. But sit here she must. If she moves suddenly, she will be hit, for she sits in the middle of the road and covered head to foot in the blue burkha. Her vision is restricted ahead and her peripheral vision is non-existent. Full news...
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January 30, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Welle: Afghan widows are struggling for survival. After their husbands’ deaths, the women are faced with rape, poverty and social condemnation. One of them considers her life to have ended before it ever really began. Gulghotay’s world fell apart she when heard the news of her husband’s death. They had been married for only three months and now he was suddenly dead. Full news...
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January 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA News: The rights group Amnesty International says 17 people have died from cold weather conditions in Afghan refugee camps, and it warns against a repeat of last year, when 100 people died in the camps due to a lack of assistance. Amnesty made the announcement Tuesday, saying that most of the 17 who died in the first two weeks of January this year were children. Full news...
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January 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: More violence and a worsening humanitarian situation are likely in Afghanistan in 2013, say aid agencies. “The worsening conflict trends over the last five years indicate that civilians will continue to suffer because of armed violence and that the humanitarian situation will deteriorate,” says the new Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) for 2013, published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Full news...
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December 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Another 10 minor Afghan children died of extreme cold at the Torkham border-crossing after their families were stranded due to the closure of the gate by Pakistani authorities, officials said on Saturday. Three sick children died on Friday when Pakistani guards closed the border in protest against alleged torture of Pakistani truck drivers by Afghan police. Full news...
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December 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three sick Afghan children died of severe weather conditions Friday at the Torkham border-crossing after Pakistani security guards blocked the gate, officials said. Afghan families had brought the children for treatment to northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar. The ailing children below the age of 10 years succumbed to severe cold at the dry port, said Idrees Momand... Full news...
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December 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Winter is descending on the Shakur clan. In the pale gray twilight of late autumn, a sharp wind slaps at the scraps of plastic that Abdel Shakur, the clan patriarch, has installed on his mud hut walls in a futile attempt at insulation. The thin tarpaulins that serve as a roof are held fast by round patties of cow dung and worn auto tires. Full news...
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November 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UN News: A senior United Nations official today called on the international community to step up its humanitarian support for Afghanistan to sustain the progress made so far in the country where thousands have suffered through 34 years of conflict and poverty. “It is clear that the Government is making progress; the candid and professional approach being taken is certainly impressive, but given the scale of the challenge, international funding support will also be key to success,” said... Full news...
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October 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Akbar does not recall the date, but what he cannot forget are the deaths. On a particularly frigid day last year, at least six children - ranging from one month to five-years-old - froze to death in a camp for the internally displaced people in Charahi Qambar on the outskirts of Kabul. They were among the 100-odd Afghans who died in the winter of 2012 - one of the harshest in recent memory. Full news...
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October 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: A 30-minute drive from the heart of the Afghan capital along dusty pot-holed roads lie the slums of the city. In the distance are plains with some patches of greenery before they hit a mountain range that juts out of the earth. We’re in Rahman Mina Camp, also known as the slum of Kabul. Dirty brown canvas tents litter the landscape, as children walk barefoot next to open sewers. Full news...
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October 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Beneath the soaring faces of rock, on a treacherous road flanked by gaping drops, lines of trucks crawled up from the Pakistani border, groaning under impossible loads of house-size metal containers and boxes tottering under tarps. Past them and between them nudged cars, vans and other trucks carrying furniture, women in burqas, open loads of cows and donkeys. Full news...
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October 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: How do you tackle widespread malnutrition in a poor, corrupt country at war? Despite billions of dollars in aid over the last decade, Afghanistan’s malnutrition rates have soared, now well-past emergency thresholds, with one-fifth of children malnourished overall; one-third of children acutely malnourished in some conflict areas; and 60 percent of children under five stunted... Full news...
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September 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: Nearly 46 percent of women between ages 20 and 24 gave birth to a child before their eighteenth birthday in the Western regions of Afghanistan, and one in four women in the country overall delivered a live birth before reaching adulthood, says a new report backed by UNICEF. “Alarmingly, 2 percent have had a live birth before the age of 15,” says the report. Full news...
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September 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Around a third of young children in southern Afghanistan are acutely malnourished, with a level of deprivation similar to that found in famine zones, a government survey has found, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid that has been poured into the region. Full news...
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September 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: They work hard; and despite their country’s poverty and political instability, they play hard, too. Few Afghans have benefited more from the past 10 years of post-Taliban government than children, and few stand to lose more if their nation slips back under Taliban rule after US and NATO troops depart in 2014. Full news...
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