8am: Kabul residents living in areas far from the city center are complaining about the lack of garbage bins in their neighborhoods. They say that even after walking long distances, not a single trash receptacle can be found, and the problem has caused significant hardship for the public. According to them, the absence of bins
Khaama: Local officials in Baghlan Province said flash floods have killed at least 15 people, injured dozens and damaged or destroyed around 200 homes in northern Afghanistan. Farooqi Khpalwak said the floods struck several districts, including Baghlan-e-Markazi District, Dand-e-Ghori and Dehna Ghori, following heavy rainfall. Heavy rains and flash floods have hit several parts of
AP: Nestled in a high-altitude valley of the Hindu Kush mountains, Kabul is rapidly running out of water. Its population relies mostly on groundwater extracted from wells. But the groundwater has been receding at an alarming rate, and some wells have to be dug as deep as 150 meters (nearly 500 feet) to reach it.
Khaama: At least 148 people have been killed and 216 injured across Afghanistan in the past two weeks after heavy rain, flash floods, landslides, earthquakes and lightning struck large parts of the country, according to Afghan disaster authorities. The latest wave of extreme weather has added to growing humanitarian pressure in one of the world’s
Amu: The death toll from floods and heavy rains in Afghanistan has risen to at least 110, with more than 160 people injured, the Taliban-run disaster management authority, ADNMA, said, as severe weather continues to affect large parts of the country. The flooding, which began on March 26, has impacted more than 20 provinces across
Afghanistan International: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says widespread rainfall continues across Afghanistan, with heavy downpours expected in central, eastern and south-eastern regions over the next week. FAO said that while rainfall benefits crop growth, heavy downpours increase the risk of flooding in urban and rural areas, potentially damaging farms, infrastructure and vulnerable
Reuters: An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 177 km (110 miles), GFZ said. Click here to read more (external link). More Taliban: 12 Killed in Last Night’s Earthquake in Afghanistan
Amu: At least 51 people have been killed and 89 injured in flooding across Afghanistan over the past eight days, according to Taliban figures, as heavy rains continue to batter multiple provinces. In the past 24 hours alone, three people were killed and 16 others injured as floods swept through at least 18 provinces, the
Amu: At least 48 people have been killed and 73 injured in Afghanistan since March 26, as heavy rains, flooding and lightning battered large parts of the country, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Taliban-run Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA). In the past 24 hours alone, six people were killed and seven
8am: The Taliban announced that since 26 March, heavy rainfall, lightning, landslides, and floods have claimed the lives of 28 people across more than 20 provinces of Afghanistan. Bakhtar News Agency, under Taliban control, reported on Monday, 30 March, that Hafiz Mohammad Yousuf Hamad, Head of Information and Publications and spokesperson for the Taliban’s Disaster