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Afghanistan has its first robotic waiter – but is that a good thing?

17th February, 2020 · admin

France24:  One fast-food restaurant in Afghanistan recently made a buzz by employing a robot as a waiter. Many customers duly headed to the Times Restaurant in Kabul to see this high-end tech in action. Interestingly, just by having this robot in Afghanistan’s capital as a waiter has highlighted some of the concerns among the country’s

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Posted in Economic News, Everyday Life, Science and Technology |
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Village Of Widows: The Afghan Drug Trade’s Lethal Legacy

6th February, 2020 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: A settlement in western Afghanistan has become known as the “village of widows.” Some 50 women in the village of Mir Ali in Herat Province’s Adraskan district have lost their husbands, with many killed or executed after smuggling drugs across the Iranian border. Click here for more (external link).

Posted in Afghan Women, Drugs, Economic News, Everyday Life | Tags: Drug Addiction |
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Afghanistan’s bread of heaven spreads smiles on earth

15th November, 2019 · admin

AA (Turkey): What’s in a bread? For some it signifies sustenance, others call it an equalizer shared at the table by the rich and poor alike. Perhaps to justify the sheaves of wheat etched onto its flag, Afghanistan offers food lovers a rich variety of local flatbread. They come in all shapes and sizes; from the iconic

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Posted in Art and Culture, Everyday Life | Tags: Food |
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Dressing Afghanistan: young designers get creative in Kabul

25th October, 2019 · admin

The Guardian (UK):  In a deeply conservative society ravaged by years of war, Afghan women still want to be free to wear clothes with style -There’s a steady stream of customers coming through the doors of Rahiba Rahimi’s fashion studio. The 25-year-old’s bold, intricate designs are fitted on mannequins and hung on rails around her

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Posted in Afghan Women, Art and Culture, Everyday Life | Tags: Afghan Clothes, Rahiba Rahimi |
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Displaced And Desperate, Afghan Kids Search Trash For Food

29th August, 2019 · admin · 3 Comments

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: At the Tagab settlement in Kabul, hundreds of families displaced by conflict and drought live in grinding poverty. The job of bringing home food often falls to the children, who are forced to sift through garbage dumps in search of scraps or anything of value to sell.

Posted in Afghan Children, Economic News, Everyday Life | Tags: Poverty |
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Inside Afghanistan: What Life Is Like, in Afghans’ Own Words

19th August, 2019 · admin

Gallup:  Gallup will publish at least an article a week that reports on what Afghans are thinking on all these topics. August 19: Law and Order August 26: Food and Shelter September 4: Institutions and Infrastructure September 9: Good Jobs September 16: Wellbeing September 23: Brain Gain Click here to read more (external link). Related Inside

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Posted in Everyday Life, Opinion/Editorial, Society |
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In Afghanistan, We Have Three Dreams

8th July, 2019 · admin

Hakim Young via CounterPunch: We’re the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, and we have three dreams. Our three dreams are about reuniting with nature and 7.7 billion other human beings! Our dreams aren’t prescriptions. They’re music and movements, distilled from today’s nightmares. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Everyday Life, Opinion/Editorial, Other News |
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The brave merchants of Wakhan, the ‘other’ Afghanistan

19th June, 2019 · admin

Al Jazeera:  The Wakhan Corridor, a mountainous region situated in the far northeast of Afghanistan, is bordered by the Hindu Kush mountains and peaks, some reaching 5,000 metres. Isolated from the rest of Afghanistan, the region was spared by the war that raged through the country for years. But many of the territory’s residents continue to

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Posted in Economic News, Everyday Life | Tags: Wakhan |
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Afghan Teen Loses Her Eye Waiting To Prove Horrific Injury Was From War

26th May, 2019 · admin

By Freshta Jalalzai & Ron Synovitz May 25, 2019 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Salema Akhundzada was speaking with her mother on the night of May 3 about making a dress as an end-of-Ramadan gift for her 6-month-old niece when a bomb exploded outside their mud-brick home in the eastern part of Ghazni Province. Afghan government

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Everyday Life, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ghazni, Taliban War on Muslims |
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Afghanistan feels impact of Iran’s economic isolation

26th April, 2019 · admin

Reuters: Afghans began moving to Iran in large numbers after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and they continued to migrate for work through decades of conflict, sending money to relatives back home that helped bolster Afghanistan’s struggling economy.  Iran’s economy has been squeezed since President Donald Trump reimposed sanctions on Iran last year after pulling out

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Posted in Economic News, Everyday Life, Iran-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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