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Taliban Urges US to Lift Curbs and Unfreeze Funds to Help Quake-hit Afghanistan

26th June, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News June 25, 2022 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban renewed their call Saturday for the United States to unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign funds and lift financial sanctions to help the war-torn country deal with its deadliest earthquake in more than two decades. The United Nations said humanitarian organizations, in coordination with Taliban authorities, are continuing

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Amir Khan Muttaqi, Earthquake |
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Relief Supplies Arrive As Rescue Efforts End Following Deadly Afghan Earthquake

25th June, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi June 25, 2022 Tents, food, and medical supplies are arriving in eastern Afghanistan following a deadly earthquake and powerful aftershock. The death toll resulting from the June 22 earthquake rose to about 1,150 on June 24, according to Abdul Wahid Rayan, the Taliban director of the state-run Bakhtar News Agency. Rayan said

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake, Khost, Paktika |
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Women Earthquake Victims Neglected for Lack of Female Physicians

24th June, 2022 · admin

Tolo News: Khost residents said that due to the lack of female physicians in the province many of the injured women have not yet been treated. They say that in the current situation, they are facing a shortage of medical facilities in the hospitals. “There are no female physicians. There are a number of injured

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Posted in Afghan Women, Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake, Khost, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban government failure |
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Death Toll In Afghan Quake Rises To 1,150 As Authorities Stop Search For Survivors

24th June, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi June 24, 2022 An aftershock has killed five people in eastern Afghanistan just hours after Taliban authorities said they have ended search-and-rescue operations from a major earthquake two days ago and raised the death toll to at least 1,150 in the war-torn country’s worst such disaster in two decades. Abdul Wahid Rayan, the Taliban

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake, Khost, Paktika |
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Taliban Urge International Aid as Afghanistan Deals With Aftermath of Deadly Quake

23rd June, 2022 · admin

VOA News June 23, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban appealed for international aid Thursday as the war-ravaged country struggles to deal with the aftermath of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people, injured many more and destroyed nearly 2,000 households. The 6.1 magnitude quake struck eastern and southeastern Afghan provinces, bordering Pakistan, during the

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Posted in Economic News, Environmental News, Photos | Tags: Earthquake, Khost, Paktika |
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Earthquake Kills More Than 1,000 in Afghanistan

22nd June, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News June 22, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A powerful earthquake in Afghanistan’s southeast has killed more than 1,000 people and injured hundreds of others, Taliban authorities said. Rescue workers said the casualties from the quake, which struck during the early hours of Wednesday, were likely to increase further. Deputy Taliban Minister for Disaster Management

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Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake, Khost, Paktika |
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Earthquake of 5.1 magnitude hits Afghanistan’s Fayzabad

14th June, 2022 · admin

India Today: An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the richter scale jolted the Afghanistan-Tajikstan border on Tuesday, June 14. The earthquake occurred in SouthEast of Fayzabad in Afghanistan at 1:05 pm, as per the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake |
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Strong Quake Hits Afghanistan, Shakes Kabul and Northeastern Provinces

2nd March, 2022 · admin

8am: The earthquake, measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale, took place at around 2:35 p.m. in the northeast and center of the country. The epicenter was reported to be in the Bazarak district of Panjshir province. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake, Kabul, Panjshir |
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Earthquake of Magnitude 5.7 Strikes Off Northeastern Afghanistan

5th February, 2022 · admin

8am: An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 occurred in northeastern Afghanistan on Saturday morning around 9:45 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km south-southeast of Faizabad, Afghanistan, according to India’s National Center for Seismology. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Earthquake |
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Earthquake Destroys 1,000 Homes in Badghis

22nd January, 2022 · admin

8am: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed due to the earthquake in western Afghanistan, particularly in Badghis province. The magnitude of the quake, which was centered in the Qades district of Badghis, was 4.9 on the Richter scale. Click here to read

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Posted in Environmental News | Tags: Badghis, Earthquake, Natural Disasters |
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