Tolo News: The death toll from the recent flash floods in Parwan province has risen to 110 as rescue workers are trying to recover more victims from the debris. Officials said 120 others were wounded. Families of the victims blames the government for not expediting the rescue and relief operation in the flood-hit area, stating
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 28, 2020 Afghanistan’s long battle to eradicate the crippling polio virus has been thwarted by conflict, migration, and myths over the vaccine. But the war-torn nation of around 30 million people has faced a new hurdle: the coronavirus pandemic. Polio vaccination drives in Afghanistan, which has the world’s
By Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 27, 2020 Mohammad Yaqoob was virtually unknown five years ago when the Taliban disclosed the mysterious death of his father and its founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar. The Taliban acknowledged that its spiritual leader had been dead for more than two years, soon after Afghan intelligence said he had
Ariana: Intra-Afghan negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban will start next week, said Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, on Thursday. The first round of talks are expected to take place in Doha, Qatar and will likely focus on a ceasefire. Talks were due to start early this month
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 27, 2020 The U.S. State Department has offered up to $5 million in rewards for information that helps locate and free two Americans kidnapped in Afghanistan. Paul Overby, 77, disappeared in 2014 in Khost near the border with Pakistan while researching a book on the Afghan people and it appeared
Tolo News: The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), citing reports by Afghan agencies, said that nearly half of all police forces in the southern regions of Afghanistan are using drugs. “Afghanistan’s General Directorate for Internal Security, partnering with National Directorate of Security, found that approximately 50% of police in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 16 new cases of the coronavirus out of 275 samples tested over the last 24 hours. The number of total cases is now 38,129, the total reported deaths is 1,401, and the total recoveries is 29,046. Click here to read more (external link).
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 26, 2020 Flash floods caused by torrential rains in Afghanistan have killed at least 100 people and injured more than 300 others in Parwan Province just north of Kabul, Afghan officials said August 26. Ghulam Bahauddin Jailani, Afghanistan’s state minister for natural-disaster management, told RFE/RL that the floods have also
World Bank: One of the greatest obstacles that Afghanistan faces as it fights COVID-19 is the overwhelming demand placed on its fragile public health system. Since the coronavirus escalated in Afghanistan last April, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has gone some way to mitigating this health crisis and signed into action the $100.4-million World