15m Afghans to receive food assistance each month: WFP

KABUL: The World Food Program (WFP) is poised to provide food assistance to more than 15 million people in Afghanistan annually until March 2023.

882 deserving households receive aid in Logar

Northern Afghanistan: Lack of transparency alleged in aid distribution

BALKH: Afghan residents in northern Afghanistan level severe criticisms against the Taliban’s unjust distribution of humanitarian aid as the nation is…

Countrywide beggars on the rise in Afghanistan 

KABUL: The unemployment crisis under the Taliban has seen thousands of men and women resort to begging in the streets or at their neighbors’ doors for…

US announces $150 million worth of aid for Afghanistan

KABUL: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced providing three aid packages totaling $150 million to Afghanistan…

Afghanistan food crisis: WB warns of severe repercussions   

KABUL: Afghanistan is one of six countries worldwide facing a food and debt crisis, according to a recent World Bank (WB) report. 

Afghan farmers worried 80pc crops yield parched this year

KABUL: Due to lack of rainfall, about 80 percent of crops in rain-fed lands in Afghanistan have been destroyed, according to Afghan farmers. 

Eight-year-old shoeshiner disguises as a boy to survive

Ghazni residents irked by unjust aid distribution

GHAZNI: Starvation, unemployment, and humanitarian crises have intensified across Afghanistan amid a corrupt system wherein the true eligible benefici…

Under Taliban, Afghans still in battle for survival 

Over 100,000 children suffer malnutrition in Afghanistan

KABUL: More than 100,000 children in Afghanistan have been infected with severe malnutrition since the beginning of this year, according to the United…

Over half of Afghanistan’s population faces hunger

KABUL: Following the collapse of Afghanistan’s republic government, millions of people in the country are now facing hunger and food shortages.