Tolo News: The anti-corruption group Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) on Thursday strongly criticized the handling of the Kabul Bank corruption case by the government of President Ashraf Ghani, saying that only $30 million of stolen assets have been recouped during Ghani’s tenure. Allegedly, $913 million was stolen. Click here to read more (external link). Related
1TV: Coronavirus positivity rate has declined to 30-40 percent in Afghanistan, the country’s acting public health minister said on Thursday. Ahmad Javad Osmani told reporters that 60 to70 percent of samples that were tested daily were coming back as positive over the past 45 to 60 days, but now that has declined to 30 to
By RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service July 9, 2020 Turkish authorities have moved the Fourth World Nomad Games to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The games, an international competition dedicated to ethnic sports, were scheduled to be held in the Turkish city of Bursa in autumn this year. The President of the Turkey-based World Ethnosport Confederation, Bilal Erdogan, said
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 8, 2020 At least six Afghan police officers have been killed in two separate Taliban bombings amid a surge in attacks across the war-torn country. Three officers were reported killed and 20 other people wounded in a truck bomb explosion in the southern province of Kandahar on July 8. The
Tolo News: The Afghan Women’s National Hockey Team on Wednesday called for broader support by the government, particularly the National Olympic Committee, to help young women playing on the team demonstrate their abilities on the international stage in the future. The Afghan Women’s National Hockey Team was established in 2012 under the National Olympic Committee.
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 210 new positive cases in the past 24 hours out of 591 tests. The ministry also reported 17 deaths due to COVID-19 over the last 24 hours while 549 others have recovered. With this, the total known COVID-19 cases in the country reached 33,594, the
AP: The top U.S. general [Frank McKenzie] for the Middle East said Tuesday that the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 7, 2020 ISLAMABAD – China, Afghanistan and Pakistan are calling for a “responsible” withdrawal of U.S.-led international forces from Afghanistan to prevent what they say is “potential terrorist resurgence” in the conflict-torn nation. Top Chinese, Afghan and Pakistani foreign ministry officials issued the statement Tuesday at the end of the latest
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 7, 2020 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has warned that a spike in violence by militants in the country poses a “serious” threat to the peace process with the Taliban. Speaking on July 6 during an online conference aimed at briefing the international community on the expected talks with the militant group, Ghani