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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Yemen Times: All eyes have been on Iraq since the US invasion a little over a year ago. But Afghanistan, where the United States started its war on terror after the attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001, is full of violence, warring factions and drug-lords. Full news...
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January 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MainStreetNews.Com: Madison County native Doris Aldrich will cover her head again next month and go to Afghanistan. She'll step off the plane in Kabul and ride past the starving and begging children with hands blackened by the cold. She'll feel that hurt inside that comes with witnessing suffering on a grand scale. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ms. Magazine: A second drought in Afghanistan has affected over two-and-a-half million villagers, some of whom are selling their young daughters as brides in order to feed and clothe their families. Full news...
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January 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Ahmad Wali, 9, is combing the rubbish dump for soda cans to sell as a way to support his 11-member family in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Thousands of children work the streets to help their households through the harsh winter. Full news...
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January 15, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Paktribune.com: Seeking treatment for her grandmother is an experience Nilab will never forget. The 20-year-old from the central Logar province had brought her grandmother to Kabul for treating a fever in late July. The 70-year-old passed away after she began medication. Full news...
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January 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IDMC: Fierce fighting between NATO troops and insurgents in southern Afghanistan has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing from their homes in a new wave of displacement. Although numbers are unverified, the government said that more than 20,000 families had been displaced due to the fighting in the provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan as of November 2006. Full news...
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January 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: The prevailing cold wave has claimed lives of 11 children and women in the Shibar district of the central Bamyan province last week. Full news...
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January 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Observer: Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed again following a devastating drought. Her family was hungry. So, a little before Christmas, Azizgul's mother 'sold' her to be married to a 13-year-old boy. Full news...
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December 26, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Hindustan Times - While the world waiting eagerly to welcome the new year 2007, the people of Afghanistan, the Karzai government and the US and NATO fighters would like to forget their worst year since the ouster of Taliban five years ago. The year 2006 witnessed the killing of over 3900 people, representing a four-fold increase over the 1000 deaths last year. Full news...
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November 11, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP - KABUL - Eight-year-old Sajjad's kite struggles upward. It's nothing grand -- a plastic bag salvaged from a heap of garbage and fashioned into a diamond shape. But it's a symbol of change in Kabul, five years after the Afghan capital was freed from a Taliban regime that believed activities such as kite-flying would distract youngsters from studying the Islamic holy book, the Quran. Full news...
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November 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sunday Times - THE first thing one notices about 16-year-old Gul Zam is her eyes, pretty and dark yet as watchful as a hunted animal's. But then the scarf covering her head shifts slightly, exposing a livid red scar on her neck. The hands that play nervously in her lap are ridged with pink burns that reach up her arms, across her chest and down her legs. Full news...
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October 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Those living in caves near Buddha statue in the central Bamyan province have not enough stuff to offer to their honourable guests at this special day of the year, contrary to people serving their guests with dry fruit and sweets in other parts of the country. Full news...
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October 18, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Some 2.5 million drought-stricken Afghans across much of the country have lost their crops and are facing acute food shortages, international aid group Christian Aid warned on Wednesday in the capital, Kabul. Full news...
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August 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Indo Asian News Service: Poverty, hardship and unemployment are driving women in Afghanistan to prostitution, with suicide the only option to escape their miseries, says a UN study. Full news...
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August 2, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN:An interesting result of the labour-intensive nature of opium production is its effect on the rural household economy, the division of labour and opportunities for Afghan women. In an otherwise ultra-traditional Islamic society opium offers women some degree of independence, through access to cash and status through their labours. Full news...
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May 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: One man lives penniless in a field under a patchwork tent with baying dogs roaming outside. Another, wearing a suit jacket and tie, glides past his silver Mercedes as he welcomes guests into his plush Kabul villa. Full news...
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May 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: Promises of work and security made Ghulam Hazara return to this western Afghan city from Iran two years ago. Now a lack of both is driving him back. Full news...
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April 12, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN, a UN humanitarian news and information service: Sitting in a small restaurant in a busy bazaar in Maimana, capital of Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province, Abdul Hadi, 36, worries out loud over the fate of his family in Kata Kala village, some 80 km away. Full news...
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April 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
South China Morning Post: After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, women were promised new freedoms. But now many are being forced into prostitution as a result of worsening poverty Full news...
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March 21, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF): As Afghanistan's new school year officially begins tomorrow (Wednesday) UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Ms. Rima Salah, has warned of a continued threat facing Afghan women and children from high rates of child and maternal mortality, low levels of school enrolment and neglect of children's fundamental rights. Full news...