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November 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: In many countries, including Afghanistan, begging has been regarded as a taboo, but in this war- ravaged and poverty-stricken country, many people including women has adopted begging as a profession to support their families. “Continued conflicts have destroyed my life, claimed the life of my husband and forcing me to beg for alms in order to survive,”... Full news...
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October 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Falling ill in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan is a risky business, as the cure can be worse than the ailment itself, Residents say unregulated sales of pharmaceuticals, often administered by poorly-trained medics, pose a serious threat to people’s lives. Medicines well past their sell-by date are smuggled in from Pakistan and sold on the open market in Helmand and other parts of Afghanistan. Full news...
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October 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: “Yet again, a new cold winter is coming but I have no enough money to buy firewood after buying food staff with price increasing week by week,” said a resident in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Wali Khan, who came to buy brushwood in a firewood market. Khan, 45, head of an 11-member family, said he and two of his sons have jobs with low income to feed the big family... Full news...
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October 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN International: From dusk until dawn, 12-year-old Fayaz toils at his uncle’s blacksmith shop in Kabul. While other kids his age are in school, he’s swinging a heavy sledgehammer and doing physically exhausting work that he knows is not meant for a boy. But he doesn't have much choice. It has been that way since he was 7, when his father got sick. Full news...
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October 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: In the relentless heat of a summer’s day in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, most people are trying to find some shade, but 11-year-old Mohammad Rafiq is walking the streets carrying a box full of shoe-shining equipment. Dripping with sweat, the boy asks passers-by, “Uncle, may I polish your shoes?” Full news...
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October 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Today we observe the tenth anniversary of Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan. It is an anniversary that is important to many. For the American military and its allies, this is a time to reflect on sacrifices made during this long and difficult war. Full news...
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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Northern Afghanistan has been experiencing drought-like conditions in recent months which have hit crops, livestock and the livelihoods of farmers and their families. Two farmers from Khoram Sar Bagh District in Samangan Province told IRIN they feared they would soon have nothing to eat, and were so desperate that they had begun selling their livestock. Full news...
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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Asif Khan sits on a dirty, once-white blanket in an abandoned cinema and fights back tears of desperation. He can’t find a job for his eldest son, who “even knows computers,” without paying a bribe. He can't afford uniforms, books or pencils for his nine daughters to go to school. And so they all live with him in the old cinema, where mangled rebars dangle like tentacles from the ceiling and a cold wind whips through windows with no glass. Full news...
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September 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: The current dry spell sweeping across Afghanistan’s northern, northeastern and western provinces could lead to a large-scale food crisis and the humanitarian community should act quickly to ensure this does not degenerate into a disaster, government and aid officials warn. "The issue is very serious. Every other year drought or other natural disaster puts millions of people into food insecurity,"... Full news...
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September 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Inmates at a new model prison in Uruzgan province say conditions are poor, with inadequate nutrition and inhumane conditions. Local officials accept that there are problems but say they are trying to sort them out. Inmates were transferred into the purpose-built prison in the main provincial town, Tarin Kowt, two months ago, from the old, cramped facilities where they were held previously. There are currently 130, all male. Full news...
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August 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Postmedia News: Just off embassy row in the centre of Kabul is a neighbourhood called Sherpur. It’s also spelled Sher Poor, but that’s simply an irony. Because, aside from the streets, which in some places rival rutted mountain passes, there’s nothing poor about Sherpur. Behind the stone and concrete walls that frame Sherpur’s neighbourhood blocks are marbled villas and mansions. Full news...
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August 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Drought has forced more than 20,000 people to walk for hours to fetch drinking water in one district of the central province of Bamyan, residents said on Tuesday. All the nearby water sources are dry. Sufi Rafi, 75, a resident of the Saighan district, told Pajhwok Afghan News: “We have not seen such a drought in the last six decades.” Full news...
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August 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Ongoing drought in northern, northeastern and western Afghanistan is likely to push 1.5-2 million more people into food insecurity this autumn, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP). This is in addition to the seven million country-wide already facing food shortages. Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: This tiny village rose from the rocky soil with great hopes and 10 million USD in foreign aid, a Levittown of identical mud-walled houses built to shelter some of the hundreds of thousands of Afghans set adrift by war and flight. Five years later, the village of Alice-Ghan and those good intentions are tilting toward ruin. Full news...
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August 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The global community has failed to create a politically stable and economically viable Afghanistan despite pouring billions of dollars into the South Asian nation during a decade-long war against the Taliban, says the International Crisis Group. The Brussels-based think tank said the United States and its allies still lacked a coherent policy to strengthen Afghanistan... Full news...
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July 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: LOOMING over the dusty, noisy metalworkers’ lane in Kabul is a gleaming skyscraper. Daily, the building’s shadow sweeps over the wooden workshops. And then it is gone. It is a fitting metaphor for this city’s two-speed economy. “We work 100 metres from these buildings,” metalworker Kazem says, “and less than a kilometre from the presidential palace - but we have no electricity.” Full news...
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June 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Far away from the war, in the remote hills of Badakhshan, there is another battle raging. Trundling into the valleys on dusty roads ripped up by large SUVs, an Afghan task force is heading towards their target: an industry so profitable that many fear it's Afghanistan’s only viable option once the West pulls its troops and money out. Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: The man sits cross-legged on the floor of his mud house, one of several in a walled compound on the barren outskirts of Kabul, welcoming his visitors with tea, cookies and a wan smile. There’s nothing out here but a few other mud-brick structures, hidden behind walls ― no stores, no schools, no toys for the wide-eyed children. Behind them dusty emptiness stretches as far as the eye can see. Full news...
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June 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, a new global survey shows. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia feature in descending order after Afghanistan in the list of the five worst countries, the poll among gender experts shows. Full news...
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June 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: As the Afghan government prides itself on boosting budget revenues, it has been accused of using methods that hurt people on modest incomes while letting large businesses off some or all their taxes. In an interview for IWPR, finance ministry spokesman Aziz Shams said domestic revenues reached 1.8 billion US dollars in the last fiscal year, which runs from March to March. Full news...
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June 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Wakht News Agency: United Nation High Commission for Refugees UNHCR had expressed concern over the internally displaced people in Afghanistan according to the reports provided by this office and the World Bank in Kabul, Herat and Kandahar provinces. Research said unemployment, lack of shelter and poverty were the main challenges faced by the internally displaced individuals... Full news...
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May 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: “I have no choice but to sell shopping bags to support our family. My elder brother also works on street because our father is disabled,” an Afghan child who introduced himself as Shah Jan told Xinhua on Sunday. Dressed in grubby clothes and shouting up “shopping bags, shopping bags” in a crowded downtown bazaar in the Afghan capital Kabul to attract buyers, the poor Shah Jan, 7... Full news...
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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
San Diego Union Tribune: What do human rights, women’s rights, civil rights, justice, freedom of religion and freedom of speech have in common? They are all nonexistent in Afghanistan. In my six months here, I’ve witnessed the aftermath of the Taliban rule, which forced Islam on people, murdered women for going to school or not wearing a burqa, and stoned people for speaking their mind. Full news...
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April 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan’s government and foreign donors spend barely 10 USD a person on health, despite pointing to it as key to winning back support against a worsening insurgency that has dragged on for nearly a decade, a study said Sunday. The other 31 USD per person that makes up the country’s meager health spend comes from Afghans themselves, many of whom struggle to provide doctors and drug care for their families... Full news...
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April 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The United Nations warned on Friday of a looming food aid shortage in Afghanistan that could leave more than 7 million people hungry unless it received urgent cash donations of over 250 million USD to buy more supplies. Most of those who will go short of food are women and children, but overall those at risk make up nearly a quarter of the country's population of around 30 million... Full news...
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April 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: After several years of attempting to earn a living by growing crops other than poppies, frustrated farmers in Kapisa province are once again producing the raw material for heroin. They say soaring drug prices, along with the government’s failure to fulfill the promises it made as part of its eradication program, left them no choice. Full news...
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April 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The number of women toiling away alongside their husbands in the fields, construction and other hard labour is increasing in central Bamyan province, with many having to give up school to contribute to the family’s finances. Zahra, 36, lives in Surkh, and says she has worked as a farmhand for the past eight years. Full news...
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February 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: As the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan enters its 10th year, it is notable that most Afghan children have never known peace. Unlike confrontations fought on distant battlefields, the inherent peril of war has found intimacy within their homes and villages. When the threat of dying is real and ever-present, it shapes your view of the world. Full news...
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January 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The world’s deadliest pollution does not come from factories billowing smoke, industries tainting water supplies or chemicals seeping into farm land. It comes from within people’s own homes. Smoke from domestic fires kills nearly two million people each year and sickens millions more, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Full news...
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January 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Shahbaz stands at the Kotai Sangi junction in Kabul with a set of builder’s tools, just as he does every day, hoping someone will take him on. “I have nine family members and I need to earn some money to feed my children,” he told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). “But there isn’t any work. I come in the morning and leave in the evening just like that.” Full news...
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