Lee Keath

May 24, 2022 at 11:46 pm

1.1 million Afghan children could face severe malnutrition VIEW

The United Nations says that in Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this...

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December 6, 2021 at 10:10 pm

Desperation drives thousands of Afghans a day across borders VIEW

Afghans are streaming across the border into Iran in accelerating numbers, driven by desperation.

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December 2, 2021 at 8:57 am

Aid official: Afghanistan’s crises get ‘progressively worse’ VIEW

A senior international aid official says Afghanistan is being hit by multiple crises that are “progressively getting worse,” with drought, economic collapse and displacement all...

• Nation & World

November 30, 2021 at 10:13 pm

Unique effort reopens girls’ schools in an Afghan province

While most high school girls in Afghanistan are forbidden to attend class by the Taliban rulers, one major exception is in the western province of...

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November 30, 2021 at 12:52 am

Rights group: Taliban kill, abduct dozens of ex-officers

Human Rights Watch says that Afghanistan's Taliban fighters have killed or forcibly “disappeared” more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in...

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November 21, 2021 at 10:15 pm

Jobs lost, middle class Afghans slide into poverty, hunger VIEW

Many Afghan families who once had steady, stable incomes have plummeted into desperation, uncertain of how they will pay for their next meal.

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November 15, 2021 at 10:28 pm

Despite mistrust, Afghan Shiites seek Taliban protection VIEW

A strange, new relationship is developing in Afghanistan following the takeover by the Taliban three months ago.

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November 10, 2021 at 9:59 pm

Now silent under Taliban, a Kabul cinema awaits its fate VIEW

The gates of Kabul’s historic Ariana Cinema are closed, and the movie posters are stripped from its marquee.

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November 8, 2021 at 5:57 am

Emaciated children in Kabul hospital point to rising hunger VIEW

A growing number of near-starving children are brought every day to the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul as hunger soars across Afghanistan, fueled by...

• Nation & World

October 25, 2021 at 10:05 am

EXPLAINER: How months of tensions led to Sudan’s coup VIEW

The military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal...

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