Afghanistan

Kabul cab drivers upset over plan to change color of yellow and white taxis

Taxi owners say they are barely able to put food on the table for their families but now have to.

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Blinken says Muslim world condemns Taliban’s restrictive bans on women’s education

Blinken said that the Muslim world has condemned the Taliban’s restrictive bans on women’s higher education in Afghanistan.

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UN warns of potentially devastating locust outbreak in northern Afghanistan

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said sightings of Moroccan Locust in the country’s ‘wheat basket’ is a huge concern

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Many aspects of human rights situation in Afghanistan remain deeply concerning: Niklasson

Niklasson says Taliban’s ban on UN’s women employees creates challenging obstacles for UNAMA to deliver fully on its important mandate.

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Heads of three media outlets and a journalist arrested in Khost

A string of arrests of journalists has been recorded in the past year, including that of a French-Afghanistan national still.

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UN’s female employees in Afghanistan ‘harassed, detained’: UN report

The report said that Taliban authorities continued to crack down on dissenting voices this year, in particular those who speak.

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China, Pakistan ‘passed on world’s message’ to Taliban in trilateral meeting: analysts

One analyst says the world has ‘reached its limit’ and that the Taliban must accept foreign demands and cut ties.

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Taliban’s plan to finance local media met with mixed reaction

Some journalists say funding from the Taliban would help keep the sector alive while others say it’s the Taliban’s way.

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China, Pakistan, Afghanistan issue joint statement on ‘trilateral cooperation’

Taliban’s foreign minister agrees with China and Pakistan to continue with the ‘trilateral cooperation mechanism’ to forge closer relations

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UN finds ‘significant increase’ in judicial corporal punishment under Taliban rule

UNAMA says corporal punishment carried out by Taliban include lashings, stonings, forcing people to stand in cold water and forced.

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