Ariana: Afghanistan has been ranked last out of 146 countries in the UN World Happiness Report 2022, which was released on Friday. This is the third consecutive year Afghanistan is placed at the very bottom of the world happiness rankings. Click here to read more (external link). Related The report warns that Afghanistan’s numbers might
Ariana: Currently, as many as 95% of the country’s 38 million people don’t have enough to eat or money to buy food, The Associated Press reported. Shelley Thakral, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, said that food prices in Afghanistan rose nearly 40% over the last eight months. Click here to read more (external
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique February 11, 2022 Shamalgah was once a bustling agricultural village that housed hundreds of residents of the Bala Bulk district of Afghanistan’s western Farah Province. But their pastoral existence was shattered when fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan National Army placed the community squarely in the line of fire.
NYP: Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan, the group’s spokesman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be another effort by the country’s new rulers to soften their image. Click here to read more (external link).
Aamaj: Sky News Agency reported that a multitude of Hazaras have left Afghanistan after Taliban’s domination. A number of Hazaras who worked with foreign forces in Afghanistan told Sky News that Taliban are doing retaliatory actions, and because of that they are living in hiding. Some of them said that Taliban’s amnesty promise was a
8am: Sources confirm that the Taliban in Badakhshan’s Yawan district fined 73 people who did not attend congregational prayers 500 afghanis. Locals said the incident took place on Friday morning, January 21, at the Dasht-e Soleiman Mosque. Click here to read more (external link).
The Guardian (UK): Gul Bano* and Karima* are activists who ran provincial branches of the ministry of women’s affairs in two different parts of Afghanistan. Their former offices have been taken over by the Taliban’s feared enforcers, the ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. They are now in hiding, afraid of
Al Jazeera: Several Afghan women Al Jazeera spoke to say they have struggled to put food on the table as Taliban fails to revive the economy. Click here to read more (external link). Related The struggling shopkeepers of Afghanistan – in pictures The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique January 6, 2022 When the Taliban seized power in August, the militant group vowed it would not resurrect the violent religious policing it enforced during its first stint in power. The hard-liners claimed they would limit themselves to preaching Islamic values of modesty and dignity. But nearly five months after