Michael Hughes: The Afghan state will completely collapse if international donors pull funding due to concerns over corruption, which seems to be growing by the day. Predatory Afghan officials – often in league with warlords and transnational criminal organizations – are emptying government coffers as everyone seems to have their attention turned to whether or
Tolo News: According to letters by the civil aviation authority, the Presidential Palace has said that COVID-19 tests should be done by the UAE-based G42-Biogenix in collaboration with the City Laboratory based in Kabul that is owned by Rezwanullah Ahmadzai, an adviser to President Ghani. Click here to read more (external link).
Reuters: In 2016 more than one million people, a quarter of them Afghans, applied for asylum in Europe, [Rasool] Rezaie among them. His claim was rejected and he returned to Afghanistan, where he initially worked as a shopkeeper. But the memory of mushroom farming lingered. Click here to read more (external link).
Jeff Seldin VOA News March 10, 2021 WASHINGTON – Any hope for a political settlement and peaceful end to two decades of war in Afghanistan remains under significant threat from rising violence, both at the hands of the Taliban and from multiple terrorist and extremist organizations, as well as from the Afghan government’s inability to
Tolo News: Documents seen by TOLO news show that millions of dollars and hundreds of hundreds of kilograms of gold have been smuggled out of Afghanistan. Sources told TOLO news that a number of lawmakers and politicians in collaboration with the government officials are smuggling US cash and gold from Hairatan Port. Click here to
Ariana: Local officials in Farah province said a fire broke out at Nasr Farahi customs facility on the border with Iran. The fire has reportedly not yet been contained. Traders told Iranian media that an oil tanker caught fire. Two others have also reportedly since burnt out. Click here to read more (external link).
By Radio Free Afghanistan March 1, 2021 A U.S. government watchdog says the United States has wasted about $2.4 billion on assets such as buildings and vehicles that were either unused or abandoned, had not been used for their intended purposes, had deteriorated, or were destroyed. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which oversees
Ariana: Kandahar officials said on Saturday that the local unemployment rate is estimated to be at 80 percent due to the ongoing conflict that has raged for the past four months between the Taliban and the Afghan security forces in the province. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations said Thursday that everyday about one thousand Afghan citizens leave the country illegally. Ministry officials attributed this to poverty, unemployment and insecurity for most Afghan citizens, especially young people. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Afghanistan reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a poultry farm in Herat province near the border with Iran, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday. Click here to read more (external link).