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MoI Hires Back Former Female Police Officers
Externa nyheter The Ministry of Interior Affairs has begun hiring female employees who worked for the previous government, the ministry spokesman said.
The ministry published a video of female employees and said that nearly one hundred former police officers have been rehired.
Dengue cases under control in Nangarhar: Officials
Externa nyheter The Public Health Department in eastern Nangarhar province says dengue fever cases have been controlled but not fully eradicated.
Last year, the first case of dengue fever surfaced in Nangarhar, where many people were infected.
USIP: Taliban Escalate New Abuses Against Afghan Women, Girls
Externa nyheter Afghanistan’s Taliban are escalating restrictions against women, sending armed men into girls’ classrooms and forcing staff to inspect girls’ bodies for signs of puberty to disqualify them from further schooling, says a United States Institute of Peace report. Afghan women report Taliban enforcers beating women whom they find wearing Western-style pants beneath their regime-mandated outer robes.
Female Students Above 6th Grade Get Schooling from Kabul Organization
Externa nyheter An institution in Kabul is supporting girls' education and providing work opportunities for nearly 2,000 girls above grade sixth in Kabul.
Save the Children: Child malnutrition cases rise nearly 50%
Externa nyheter The number of dangerously malnourished children admitted to Save the Children’s mobile health clinics in Afghanistan has increased by 47% since January this year, with some babies dying before managing to receive any treatment.
Demand for malnutrition treatment services has surged in recent months as families struggle to cope with Afghanistan’s worst hunger crisis on record. In January, Save the Children’s 57 mobile health teams admitted about 2,500 malnourished children for treatment. By September, that number had jumped to around 4,270 children admitted by 66 teams, according to newly released data.
Taliban Bars Female Students from Entering Campus for Not Wearing Burqa
Externa nyheter Female students at the Badakhshan University in northeastern Afghanistan say that they were sent away from the campus because they were not wearing a burqa, the Taliban’s recommended style of attire.
In addition, one of the Taliban government’s guards can be seen chasing after the female students with a whip and lashing them to disperse them in publicly accessible videos.
UN Reaches 4.6 Million Afghan People with Aid
Externa nyheter The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said that so far in 2022, it had provided aid to more than 4.6 million people in Afghanistan.
The UN agency said on October 30 that it has provided cash assistance, and household items through community-based programs to help the vulnerable and destitute people of Afghanistan.
A further 1.1 million Afghans in over 150,000 families have reportedly been assessed for humanitarian aid, with the UN noting that the evaluation process is still ongoing nationwide.
About 90% of Afghans do not have enough food to eat at this time, and more than 50% of them need emergency assistance, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan (OCHA), as the country’s population grows more and more dependent on humanitarian aid.
As Winter Approaches, Committee Created to Control Coal Prices
Externa nyheter The Islamic Emirate has appointed a special committee to monitor and manage the price of heating materials, particularly coal, as winter approaches amid a dire humanitarian situation that is estimated to affect millions of people.
“The price in the market is over 16,000 Afs. To facilitate our people’s access to heating materials, the Islamic Emirate capped the price of each ton of coal around 9,000 Afs,” said Akhunzada Abdul Salam, a spokesman for the MoCI
Afghan Pine Nuts Exported to Europe For First Time
Externa nyheter For the first time, the private sector in the province of Herat has begun exporting pine nuts to Europe.
Twelve tons of pine nuts, eight tons of raisins, and eight tons of pistachio nuts were sent from Herat to Germany in the first shipment.