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Dressing Afghanistan: young designers get creative in Kabul

25th October, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

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 · Leave a comment

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 · Leave a comment

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 · Leave a comment

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 · Leave a comment

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 · Leave a comment

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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‘A hunter’s hope’: Snaring birds in warring Afghanistan

15th April, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

Reuters: Bird hunting is an ancient sport in Afghanistan, where local and migrating species have flocked for thousands of years and where even amid the chaos of the past 40 years of conflict, the tradition persists. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Art and Culture, Everyday Life | Tags: Bird Hunting, Hunting in Afghanistan |
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Afghanistan is world’s third least happy country: UN report

21st March, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

1TV: Afghanistan is ranked third least happy country in the world, according to an annual survey released on Wednesday. The 2019 World Happiness Report, released by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, showed that Afghanistan were nine spots down from last year. Afghanistan is only above Central African Republic and South Sudan in the latest index.

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Posted in Economic News, Everyday Life, Society |
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Kabul’s Expanding Foreigner ‘Bubble’ Trades Safety for Isolation

19th March, 2019 · admin · Leave a comment

Reuters: Kabul’s green zone is a place where diplomats fly in cheesecake from New York and cases of wine from Europe, but many of those residing inside the heavily fortified enclave are not allowed to walk without an armed guard even for a distance of 100 meters. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Everyday Life, Security |
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