Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan, May 10, 2021 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is horrified and outraged by this weekend’s barbaric bomb attack on the Sayed-u-Shohada Girls’ School in Afghanistan where more than 50 people, including girls, have…
Afghanistan
NEW YORK, 8 MAY 2021 –“UNICEF strongly condemns the horrific attack earlier today near the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The attack claimed the lives of dozens of schoolchildren, mostly girls, and severely injured…
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OVERVIEW Forty years of war, recurrent natural disasters, chronic poverty and the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be a deadly combination for people in Afghanistan. Nearly half of the population (18.4m people) is in need of humanitarian and…
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Chris Nyamandi Country Director for Save the Children in Afghanistan: "We are outraged by the bomb attack which took place at a school in west Kabul today and took the lives of 30 people including many school…
Afghanistan
Saturday’s deadly bombing outside a high school in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has been condemned by leading UN officials. The attack led to the deaths of at least 30 people, including several schoolchildren. Most of the…
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1. REPORT SUMMARY Protection Monitoring demonstrates that at the close of Q1 2021 the long-documented risks facing the Afghan people persist. Many of these protection concerns are the direct result of armed conflict (including civilian deaths and…
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Hundreds of children have been killed and hundreds more injured by US and Afghan airstrikes in the past five years, UN data analysed by AOAV can reveal. Between 2016-2020 (inclusive) there have, in Afghanistan, been: 3,977 total civilian…
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Due to heavy rains since 3 May, flash floods hit 10 provinces in central, northern and western regions of Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people (including 8 children) and affecting 910 households. The provinces of Herat,…
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German aid organisations continue to stand by the Afghan people The withdrawal of international troops has fundamentally changed the military situation in Afghanistan. The need of the population, however, remains great. At present, every third inhabitant of…
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Afghanistan: Health Care for Women Hit by Aid Cuts Dropping Donor Support Threatens Essential Services (New York) – Falling donor support for essential services in Afghanistan is reducing women’s access to essential health care, Human Rights Watch said…
