Afghanistan

The United States has approved a new $327 million humanitarian aid programme to fund emergency support and health services

The Turkish Co-operation and Co-ordination Agency has commissioned renovation of the building hosting Centre for Women's Empowerment and Professional Development, located in Herat Province in Afghanistan, to employ around 100 women

Authorities in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia have declared that girls' high schools have been opened in recent days, although the measure has not been officially approved

One year after the Taliban retook the country, a group of 32 NGOs called on the international community not to abandon the population and instead address the underlying reasons for the economic crisis, defend human rights and increase humanitarian aid

Amid spiralling poverty, the lack of jobs and 40% inflation, girls have no future: local culture contemplating the habit of selling young daughters into marriage for dowry adds to the Taliban veto on schooling over grade 6

The number of members of the Islamic State terrorist organisation in Afghanistan has increased threefold to 6.000 since the Taliban came to power last year, said Zamir Kabulov, head of the second Asian department of the Russian Foreign Ministry

EU has allocated €15 million for child protection and €25 million for polio vaccines; according to UNICEF, children suffer violence and various dangers due to the economic and humanitarian conditions

Engineers and railway specialists from Turkmenistan arrived in Akina with machinery and equipment to resume construction of the Akina-Andkhoy railway line, connecting Turkmenistan and Afghanistan

As of yesterday night, all female TV speakers were forced to work with full face coverage as a result of pressure to the TV stations were speakers opposed to the requirement