When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...
A new report from the United Nations shows that the economy and standard of living in Afghanistan has cratered since the American pullout from the country in 2021. The hardest hit demographic are ...
A wind farm in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, June 11, 2009. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Daniel Wilkinson (US State Department). Afghanistan’s heavy reliance on international aid — in 2021 foreign aid ...
LONDON/ISLAMABAD, Oct 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Marzia has dedicated the past decade to treating some of Kabul's poorest women, but the midwife has now packed up her stethoscope along with a ...
Afghanistan’s economy is showing modest signs of growth after two years of severe contraction, the World Bank said. In its latest development update issued late Wednesday, the financial institution ...
Afghanistan features on this year’s Emergency Watchlist as some 23.7 million people—just over half of the population—urgently need humanitarian support. The crisis in Afghanistan largely stems from ...
In 2025, Afghan women and girls faced widespread exclusion from education and work, worsening poverty, limiting economic ...
Afghanistan has largely disappeared from the news, but it remains at the center of one of the world’s most persistent, severe, and complex humanitarian crises. Almost three years after the Taliban ...
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