Ariana: Many residents of Kabul and some other major cities in Afghanistan complain about longer and more frequent power outages, saying that they have electricity for about two hours a day. Kabul, with a population of more than five million, needs more than 700 megawatts of electricity. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, the country’s national power
8am: The shortage of medicines and the lack of doctors, particularly gynecologists, are causing concern among citizens in Ghor. Complainants said that only two female doctors are available in the central hospital of Firuzkoh city. Residents also claim that the lack of a gynecologist has made women feel uncomfortable, as they are not receiving the
By Abubakar Siddique RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi January 7, 2023 Zahra has relied on handouts of cooking oil, rice, and flour from local and foreign aid agencies to feed her seven children. The 35-year-old is among the millions of Afghans who have received lifesaving assistance in the face of a worsening humanitarian and economic crisis. But many
Khaama: After taking power last August, the Taliban promised to crack down on narcotics and explicitly ban the production, processing and sale of illicit drugs. On the contrary, the drug trade in Afghanistan did not only remain untouched but boomed to a great extent. The number of drug addicts including men, women and young children
8am: In an exclusive report, the Daily Etilaat Roz newspaper revealed the existence of widespread corruption in the general traffic directorate under Taliban rule. Based on the report published on Saturday, Hasibullah Mukhtar, the Taliban’s general traffic director, who is affiliated with the Haqqani network, has illegally recruited his relatives, embezzling the daily revenues of
Ariana: As the people of Afghanistan wrestle with one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, Afghanistan was listed as one of the top 3 countries on the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) annual Emergency Watchlist 2023, which highlights the 20 countries most in danger of aggravating humanitarian crises in 2023. IRC ranked Afghanistan after
Khaama: Kabul Municipality [Taliban] on Tuesday inaugurated a new landmark featuring a giant hand-painted globe in Dahan-e-bagh square in the city. The globe is eight meters in diameter and is set upon a structure that has a mechanism that allows it to spin 12 times a minute, said Mohammad Khalid, deputy mayor of Kabul. “Twelve
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique December 8, 2022 Mahmood has been selling off what is left of his family’s meager possessions in order to prepare for the harsh winter ahead. “I sold our carpets and kitchen utensils to buy food and fuel for the winter,” the father-of-five, who lives in the northern Afghan province of
8am: Save the Children reports that girls are doing manual labor instead of learning in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. In a piece that appeared online on Monday (December 5th), Save the Children said that female students in Afghanistan have lost hope for the future after being banned from attending school since the Taliban regained control in August
Jurist: The Taliban don’t care about how the people suffer. Since they retook control of Afghanistan, people have only experienced constraints in their everyday life. The international community’s financial support seems to be not enough as there are a lot of complaints that the Taliban use them for themselves instead of giving them to needy