Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday reported 303 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,809 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 64,122, the total number of reported deaths is 2,762, and the total number of recoveries is 55,118.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 17, 2021 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week could potentially lead to cuts in funding for essential services for Afghan women and girls. The bipartisan Protect Women’s and Girls’ Rights in Afghanistan Act would require the U.S. secretary of state
Tolo News: Mohammad Daud Laghmani assumed office as the new governor of northern Faryab province at a ceremony at the army base in the city of Maimana on Monday, sources said. Daud Laghmani was supposed to assume office this week but the governor’s compound in Maimana city is still surrounded by protesters who oppose the
By Pamir Sahill May 17, 2021 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Until a few year ago, Malak Ziarat Gul Atmarkhel made a decent living from his businesses that crossed the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is a tribal leader of the Mohmand, a large Pashtun tribe that straddles the border, and ran a market and restaurant
Tolo News: For the past twenty years, all imported drugs and food have been tested for quality control in Kabul, as there are no other laboratories in the provinces to test the medicine and food being imported into Afghanistan from various cross-border routes. Officials of Afghanistan’s Medicine Service Union say the Afghan government has failed
Tolo News: The second round of the Afghanistan Champions League has been delayed because of national football matches in the 2022 World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers in June, the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) announced on Monday. Before this, the league was stopped during Ramadan but was expected to start on Sunday.
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 16, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Fighting between government security forces and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan resumed in the early hours of Sunday, ending a three-day cease-fire declared by the adversaries to mark Islamic Eid al-Fitr festival. The Afghan army confirmed its forces started “offensive, clearing and counterterrorism” operations in districts close
Tolo News: The National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, or Junbish-e-Islami, led by former vice president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, has threatened to continue their protests over the new governor’s appointment in Faryab until the Afghan government listens to their demands. The protestors held a large rally in Faryab and prevented a helicopter carrying Mohammad Daud