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$40 Million Cash Reaches Kabul, DAB to Auction $17 on Wednesday

14th March, 2023 · admin

Khaama: DBA reports from receiving cash packages on a weekly basis, which helps the Taliban-run administration to strengthen their governance, according to the critics of the ruling regime. According to the central bank, this is the 61st aid package that has been dispatched to Afghanistan. Since the return of the Taliban to power in August

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Da Afghanistan Bank, Secretly funding Taliban, West funding Taliban, West supporting Taliban |
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Over 1,000 people killed in Natural Disaster in Afghanistan

13th March, 2023 · admin

Khaama: Natural disasters have left over 1,000 people dead, and over 2,000 others injured across Afghanistan during the current solar year (1401), according to a Disaster Management Ministry official. According to the World Bank Report, Natural disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, and droughts are exacerbating vulnerability and poverty in Afghanistan. Click here to

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News | Tags: Natural Disasters |
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Central Bank Has Maintained Stability of Currency: Mehrabi

12th March, 2023 · admin

Tolo News: “The Central Bank of Afghanistan has successfully utilized monetary policy tools to maintain price stability and reduce volatility in the exchange rate. Compared to other currencies, the Afghani has remained relatively stable.” One dollar was exchanged for around 89 afghani on Sunday in Kabul markets. “One of the main reasons that we witness

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Posted in Economic News | Tags: afghani |
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Charity holds mass wedding for 60 couples in Kabul

10th March, 2023 · admin

Ariana: As many as 60 couples have tied the knot in a mass wedding arranged by a charity foundation at a cost of more than three million afghanis in Kabul. Organizers said they wanted to avoid extravagant spending that often happens in wedding ceremonies and to fight bad traditions. “We gave a dowry of around

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Posted in Economic News, Society |
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UN Launches $4.6B Appeal for Afghanistan, Warns of Drop in Funding

9th March, 2023 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News March 9, 2023 After weeks of dispiriting debates over whether to suspend or downgrade humanitarian operations in Afghanistan, the United Nations on Thursday launched a $4.6 billion appeal to assist more than 23 million of the most vulnerable Afghans this year. The humanitarian appeal was developed last year for release in

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Taliban government failure |
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ILO: Afghan Women Bear Brunt of Job Losses After Taliban Takeover

7th March, 2023 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News March 7, 2023 ISLAMABAD — The International Labor Organization said Tuesday that female employment levels in Afghanistan had fallen steeply since the Taliban took over the war-ravaged country. The ILO, in a new report, found that Taliban curbs on women’s activities and their ability to work had contributed to the decline. It

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Education, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Fresh $40 Million Cash Arrives Kabul, DAB to Auction $16 Million on Wednesday

7th March, 2023 · admin

Khaama: According to the central bank, this is the 60th aid package that has been dispatched to Afghanistan. Since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021, the international community’s cash aid has reached nearly $2 billion. Compared to the Pakistani Rupee and Iranian Rial, Afghani has remained quite strong over the past

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Da Afghanistan Bank, Secretly funding Taliban, West funding Taliban, West supporting Taliban |
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The Sweet Sting Of Success: Afghanistan’s Fledgling Beekeeping Industry Stuck With Glut Of Honey

4th March, 2023 · admin

March 04, 2023 By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Beekeeping became much more than a hobby when the industry was reborn in Afghanistan over the past two decades. For many Afghan farmers, honey became their lifeblood. But with the decline of the Afghan economy, the sweet commodity has become a luxury item as cash-strapped customers focus their spending

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Posted in Economic News | Tags: Beekeeping in Afghanistan |
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Afghan Women Following Taliban’s Rules Still Banned from NGO Work

4th March, 2023 · admin

VOA News March 3, 2023 Roshan Noorzai, Fawzia Ahsan, Sahar Azimi, and Waheed Faizi WASHINGTON — Every morning since 2021, 26-year-old Sabira Saidi would wear her black hijab and face mask and go to work accompanied by her father or brother. Saidi, who worked as a case worker for London-based Children in Crisis in Kabul and

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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Ban on Women’s Work Causes ‘Food and Medicine’ Shortage in Afghanistan: Blinken

3rd March, 2023 · admin

Khaama: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken once again condemned the Taliban’s ban on female employees’ work, adding that gender-based restrictions will lead to a shortage of food, medicine, and other life-saving supplies, affecting vulnerable people including women and girls. The Secretary of State in a recorded speech sent to the United Nations Human Rights

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Economic News, Human Rights, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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