By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 26, 2023 Sharafuddin stands on the side of a road in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat, fighting off his pangs of hunger with sheer determination to score enough work or food to get his family through another day. It was already an exhaustive daily ritual amid the relentless economic and humanitarian
Khaama: Taliban authorities reported on Thursday that 78 people have died over the last couple of days during Afghanistan’s harsh winter, worsening the humanitarian crisis in the country. Amid the dire economic situation, the harsh winter has deepened the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. As a result of extremely cold weather, 78 people have died across
Tolo News: At least 16 people died in four different provinces in the past four days as a result of the severe cold wave in the country. According to the State Ministry for Disaster Management, these deaths happened in Badghis, Nimroz, Faryab, and Ghazni provinces. More than 3,000 cattle also died due to exposure to
Tolo News: The State Ministry for Disaster Management on Sunday said rain and snowfall in 20 provinces have closed a number of highways to traffic, including in Bamiyan, Farah, and Sar-e-Pul provinces. “The Kotal-e-Shato area in Bamiyan is temporarily closed to traffic. The route in Chaman district in Farah is closed to traffic as a
8am: At least 10 miners have been trapped in a gold mine site after a landslide occurred last night due to an earthquake in Badakhshan province. This incident happened on Thursday night in Khairabad village of Yawan district of Badakhshan. It is said that the trapped workers are screaming for help after 15 hours of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 5, 2023 The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) says an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 has rocked the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. The GFZ said on its website that the earthquake, recorded at 2:25 p.m. GMT on January 5, had a depth of 191 kilometers. There were no immediate
Tolo News: The burning of coal, plastic, and other cheap fuels as well as the exhaust emissions from old vehicles are the main sources of air pollution in Kabul. “To see the level of air pollution we just have one station that is in our department and for this reason we can’t check the level
8am: The Taliban Ministry of Information and Culture has said that it has signed contracts worth $42 million with foreign tourists that allow them to hunt rare birds. Bakhtar news agency, the official Taliban-owned news website, reported on Tuesday (December 13th) that the million-dollar contracts with foreign tourists, especially Arabs, facilitate the legal hunting of
8am: Taliban allows Qatari nationals to hunt Afghanistan’s endangered birds. Sources confirmed to Hasht-e Subh that on Thursday (December 1st), Arab sheikhs, using Taliban helicopters, visited Nimruz province and are hunting rare birds. It is reported that these Arab sheikhs are residents of Qatar and until last week they were busy hunting birds in the
Al Jazeera: Call for funding grows for diplomatically isolated Afghanistan, which has faced natural disasters because of climate change. As the climate summit kicked off on November 6, the UN mission in Afghanistan called for urgent collective climate action, saying the country is “one of the least prepared against climate shocks”. It added that Afghanistan