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Rural School Closures Seen As Taliban Effort To Impose Full Control Over Education
Externa nyheter Since mid-April, nearly 1,600 CBE centers in Kandahar Province have been closed, depriving 50,000 students of an education. Similar numbers have been recorded in neighboring Helmand Province in a nationwide trend.
IED attacks continue to take heavy civilian toll
Externa nyheter UNAMA documented 2,814 civilian casualties (701 killed, 2,113 wounded) as a result of IED attacks between 15 August 2021 and 30 May 2023.
Major locust outbreak as 8 million people cut off from food aid
Externa nyheter A large-scale plague of locusts is ravaging Afghanistan’s northern provinces, as eight million people have been cut off food aid in the past two months due to funding shortfalls. The escalating situation threatens to plunge millions of people into worsening levels of hunger, Save the Children said.
Taliban leader claims women are provided with a ‘comfortable and prosperous life’
Externa nyheter In his Eid message Akhundzada said that under the rule of the Islamic Emirate, concrete measures have been taken to save women from many traditional oppressions, including forced marriages, “and their Shariah rights have been protected.”
Widespread fire rages through Nuristan and Kunar forests
Externa nyheter More than 180 hectares of forest in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces is on fire, officials said on Sunday.
Islamic Emirate Leader Forbids Extra-Judicial Punishment
Externa nyheter The Islamic Emirate leader has ordered that no one should be punished without a court order, and that the authority to punish is only with a Sharia court and no one has the right to arbitrarily punish and detain someone, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate said.
Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told TOLOnews that the order also forbade filming videos at the scene of a punishment.
EU allocates 12 million euros for aid to Afghanistan
Externa nyheter The European Union has announced Thursday it has allocated 12 million euros in support of vulnerable Afghans.
Taliban administration officials attend peace forum in Norway
Externa nyheter "Norway invited three civil servant-level individuals working for the Afghan de facto authorities in Kabul to this year's Oslo Forum. They met Afghan civil society and representatives from other countries to discuss the situation in Afghanistan," Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt told Reuters.
Taliban carry out 2nd known public execution since seizing power
Externa nyheter The court had sentenced to death a man identified only as Ajmal from the capital Kabul who was found guilty of murdering five people in two separate incidents last year.