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‘I’m Sitting Here Praying To God’: Deadly Cold Plunges Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis To A New Low

26th January, 2023 · admin

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

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Afghanistan’s Winter Turned Deadly, Killing 78 People Across the Country

19th January, 2023 · admin

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

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News | Tags: Weather |
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16 Dead in Four Provinces amid Severe Cold Wave

16th January, 2023 · admin

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

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Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Weather |
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Snow, Rain Block Highways in Some Provinces

8th January, 2023 · admin

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

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Badakhshan Landslides: At Least 10 Miners Trapped at Mining Site

6th January, 2023 · admin

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

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Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Badakhshan, Earthquake, landslide, Natural Disasters |
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Earthquake Rocks Afghanistan’s Mountainous Hindu Kush Region

5th January, 2023 · admin

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

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Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake |
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Air Pollution Increasing in Kabul: NEPA

16th December, 2022 · admin

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

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Posted in Environmental News, Human Rights | Tags: Air Pollution, Kabul |
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Taliban to Raise $42 Million From Lifting Hunting Ban on Rare Birds for Arab Royals

14th December, 2022 · admin

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

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Posted in Arab-Afghan Relations, Corruption, Economic News, Environmental News, Taliban | Tags: Bird Hunting, Hunting in Afghanistan, Life under Taliban rule, Qatar-Afghanistan Relations |
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Qatari Sheikhs Hunt Afghanistan’s Endangered Birds

1st December, 2022 · admin

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

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Posted in Arab-Afghan Relations, Corruption, Environmental News, Taliban | Tags: Bird Hunting, Corrupt Taliban, Endangered Species, Life under Taliban rule, Qatar-Afghanistan Relations |
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Critics lament exclusion of Afghanistan from COP27

22nd November, 2022 · admin

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

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News | Tags: Climate Change |
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