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Back to black: What Afghanistan’s new focus on coal tells us
openDemocracy: The Afghan official told openDemocracy that the country’s mines are “labour intensive, don’t use high technology and machinery and only provide risky work, without safeguards or insurance”. “But,” they added, explaining how such mines continue to find willing workers, “so many Afghans are starving, they don’t even care about their own life”. Click here
511 dead, 3,700 injured in flash floods over the past year in Afghanistan
Ariana: State Ministry for Natural Disasters Management officials said 511 people have died and more than 3,700 people have been injured during the past year in flash floods across Afghanistan. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, officials said more than 23,000 residential areas and 66,700 acres of agricultural land were destroyed and almost 8,000
Iran Deports Nearly 3,000 Afghan Refugees
8am: Local sources in Nimruz province have reported that during the past seven days, nearly 3,000 Afghan immigrants have been deported from Iran. Almost 2,844 Afghan immigrants have entered Nimruz province from the Silk Bridge on the Afghan–Iranian border, sources said on Thursday, August 18. Forced deportation, harassment, and pushing the refugees behind the wall
Police Say 21 Killed In Kabul Mosque Blast
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 18, 2022 An explosion that ripped through a mosque packed with worshippers during evening prayers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 17 killed 21 people, police say. Police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on August 18 that 33 people had been wounded in the blast. Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
Medical Workers in Parwan Report Rise in COVID-19 Cases
Tolo News: Officials at a hospital in Parwan treating COVID-19 say that the number of patients infected by the virus have increased by 70 percent, and the hospital is facing a lack of beds and other supplies. Abdul Hameed Zhekafer, a hospital official, said that in the past one month they recorded more than one
Tolo News in Dari – August 17, 2022
“Fall of the republic, a collective failure” says Ghani’s former deputy chief of staff
EuroNews: Since the fall of Kabul and the collapse of the Afghan government many of its members have been trying to set the record straight and tell their side of the story. Among those officials is Mr Hamdullah Mohib the former national security advisor for president Ashraf Ghani. One year on, Mohib sat down with
NRF Kills 5, Injures 4 Taliban Fighters in Baghlan Province
8am: Local sources report that five Taliban fighters are killed and four others injured in an attack by the National Resistance Forces (NRF) on the Taliban posts in Banawi Andarab district of Baghlan province. Sources added that the NRF forces attacked the Taliban bases in Laghak village of Banawi Andarab district on Tuesday, August 16.
First Person: ‘We are the hope, we are the power keeping Afghanistan together’
UN: Mahbouba Sera, one of the world’s most prominent women’s rights activists, chose to stay in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, to witness what was happening to her country, and to work for a society that benefits all of its people In 24 hours a democracy we worked for over a 20-year