Ariana: The Polio Free Afghanistan organization announced Sunday in a post on X that a polio vaccination campaign will begin Monday and be carried out across Afghanistan. The organization stated that the campaign will target children under the age of five. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: An estimated 6.5 million children in Afghanistan – or nearly three out of ten – will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year as the country feels the immediate impacts of floods, the long term effects of drought and the return of Afghans from Pakistan and Iran, said Save the Children in
Khaama: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced that the return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan has made the polio vaccination campaign in the country more challenging. Stevan Lauwerier, head of the polio eradication program, called for increased efforts to eliminate polio among returning refugees from Pakistan during his visit to the Torkham border
Khaama: The World Food Programme has recently published statistics showing that currently, three million children in Afghanistan are suffering from malnutrition. On Friday, May 10, the organization announced on its social platform X that the World Food Programme can only support one of every three children. The World Food Programme has emphasized that the reduction
Lisa Schlein VOA News April 27, 2024 GENEVA — Changes are being urged to plans for returning thousands of Afghan citizens from Pakistan to make the process more effective. While Pakistan has delayed the expulsion of some 850,000 documented Afghan refugees to Afghanistan, a senior Red Cross official is appealing for the returns to occur “in
Khaama: Sources in Badakhshan province report that more than a hundred women and children in the Khawahan district of the province have been afflicted with an unknown respiratory illness. It is said that 40 women and 80 children have been affected by this illness so far. Amiri, the head of information and culture in Badakhshan,
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 18, 2024 ISLAMABAD — A survey released Thursday revealed that over the past seven months, nearly 250,000 children have returned to Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan with almost nothing, and they urgently need food, shelter and access to education. The study by Save the Children said that more than 520,000 Afghans have returned home
Michael Hughes: The US this week raised concerns at the UN about the recruitment and deployment of child soldiers in Afghanistan, a serious criminal activity the Taliban must cease and be held accountable for. However, officials in Washington often suffer from amnesia, forgetting that the U.S. government waived restrictions related to using children in combat
Al Jazeera: Poor nutrition is rife in a country plagued by economic, humanitarian and climate crises two and a half years since the Taliban returned to power. Ten percent of children under five in Afghanistan are malnourished and 45 percent are stunted, meaning they are small for their age in part due to poor nutrition,
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 1, 2024 Taliban officials in southeastern Afghanistan said Monday that an overnight landmine explosion had killed at least nine children. The “unexploded mine” was a remnant of past conflicts that went off on Sunday as a group of young boys and girls were playing with it in the district of