Afghanistan's Climate Chaos
Erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, unseasonal frosts and flash floods are now common. At present, Afghanistan is ranked ...
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Nearly 10% of Afghanistan’s population are drug addicts - Taliban official
TASS/. The number of drug addicts in Afghanistan currently stands at 3.5 million, or 9% of the country’s 39-million population, Deputy Health Minister Abdul Bari Omar, appointed by the Taliban ...
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Hidden Atrocities: The Unseen Struggle of Afghanistan’s LGBTQ+ Community Under Taliban Rule – report and interview
The resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 cast a long shadow of oppression over the nation, disproportionately impacting women and the LGBTQ+ community. While the violence against ...
Taliban to attend COP29 for the first time since 2021 takeover
A recent report by Save the Children said that Afghanistan comes at number six on the list of most vulnerable countries to ...
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Afghanistan emergency
Although new conflict-related displacement has reduced in recent years, Afghanistan is grappling with one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. More than half the population needs humanitarian ...
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Mapping the advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan
US forces based outside Afghanistan had launched air strikes ... In 2017 about 15 million people - half the population - were reported to be living in areas either controlled by the Taliban ...
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Transcript: Afghanistan — a country on the edge
We have something like 65 or 70 per cent of the population that doesn’t have access to clean water. The country is on the edge and basically, in terms of humanitarian crises that Afghanistan has ...