Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Friday reported 69 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,790 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry says the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 55,008, the total number of reported deaths is 2,400, and the total number of recoveries is 47,606. Click
Ariana: Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has appointed Wahid Majroh the Acting Minister of Public Health Ministry (MoPH), the Presidential Palace confirmed. This comes as, President Ghani had fired the country’s former health minister, Ahmad Jawad Osmani, on December 31st, 2020, which raised questions over the legitimacy of President Ashraf Ghani’s move. Click here to
Ariana: Afghanistan has been ranked 165 out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which was released on Thursday. The watchdog stated that Afghanistan scored only 19 out of 100 points in terms of prohibiting corruption. Click here to read more (external link).
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 28, 2021 A week after U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said it would review Washington’s peace deal with the Afghan Taliban, the fate of the nearly year-old agreement is in the balance. The Taliban rejected a U.S. Treasury Department memo saying Al-Qaeda was “gaining strength in Afghanistan” because
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 28, 2021 The U.S. envoy who brokered a deal with the Taliban last year has been asked to stay in his position, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on January 27. U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has been asked to “continue the vital work that he’s performing,”
Tolo News: Afghan artifacts, including the Bactrian gold collection, will be sent abroad for display, said acting minister of information and culture, Mohammad Tahir Zuhair on Thursday. This comes as Mir Rahman Rahmani, the Afghan parliament speaker. on Wednesday warned that the ancient Bactrian gold, the most precious reserve of the country, would not be
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 48 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 1,896 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry stated that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 54,939, the total number of reported deaths is 2,399, and the total number of recoveries is
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 27, 2021 A Taliban delegation has held talks with high-ranking Iranian officials in Tehran amid ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the militant group. Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem tweeted that the delegation led by deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar met with Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 27, 2021 Afghan officials say two policemen have been killed and at least five others wounded in separate attacks in different parts of the capital, Kabul. The two officers were killed on January 27 by “sticky bombs” — explosives attached to their vehicle — in the eastern district of the