# afghanistan - Monday 19 September, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Mark Frerichs has been detained in Afghanistan since 2020.
# afghanistan - Sunday 18 September, 2022
# Taliban
# Taliban
Teenage girls are still barred from school and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe in public, with only their eyes showing.
# afghanistan - Monday 12 September, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
The United Nations claimed three women were detained for questioning today.
# afghanistan - Saturday 10 September, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Protests have been taking place today.
# afghanistan - Monday 22 August, 2022
# One Year Later
# One Year Later
Ghazal Maher was a dentist and university lecturer in Afghanistan before the Taliban returned to power.
# afghanistan - Thursday 18 August, 2022
# Department Of Justice
The scheme was designed to help Afghans travel to Ireland to stay with family members who are already living in the State. Humanitarian workers say those waiting to hear about applications feel left behind. The Department of Justice said decisions will be issued “in the coming months”.
# afghanistan - Monday 15 August, 2022
# One Year On
# One Year On
While the Taliban is celebrating the anniversary, ordinary Afghans are facing increased hardships – especially women.
# afghanistan - Saturday 13 August, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
About 40 women — chanting “bread, work and freedom” — marched in front of the education ministry building in Kabul.
# afghanistan - Friday 12 August, 2022
# Resilience
From The42
# Resilience
The series continues at Stormont on Monday.
# afghanistan - Sunday 3 July, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Thousands of male clerics have endorsed the hardline government.
# afghanistan - Saturday 25 June, 2022
# Afghanistan Earthquake
# Afghanistan Earthquake
Even before Wednesday’s quake, the country was in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.
# afghanistan - Friday 24 June, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
The magnitude six quake has left thousands more without shelter.
# afghanistan - Thursday 23 June, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Over 1,000 people were killed and at least 3,000 were wounded.
# afghanistan - Wednesday 22 June, 2022
# Paktika
# Paktika
Officials warned the death toll will likely rise.
# afghanistan - Sunday 29 May, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during the two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan .
# afghanistan - Sunday 22 May, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
This month Afghanistan ’s supreme leader issued a diktat for women to cover up fully in public, including their faces.
# afghanistan - Saturday 21 May, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Since regaining power last year the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on civil society.
# afghanistan - Saturday 7 May, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada also said that if women had no important work outside it was “better they stay at home”.
# afghanistan - Tuesday 19 April, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
At least 11 other people were wounded by two bomb blasts at a boys’ school in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
# afghanistan - Saturday 16 April, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
The UN said it was “deeply concerned” by the civilian deaths caused by air strikes.
# afghanistan - Sunday 27 March, 2022
# Education
# Education
“If the girls’ schools remain closed even after one week, we will open them ourselves.”
# afghanistan - Wednesday 23 March, 2022
# ACCESS DENIED
# ACCESS DENIED
The Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on women since returning to power.
# afghanistan - Monday 21 March, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
The international community has appealed to Afghanistan ’s Taliban rulers to allow girls to return to school.
# afghanistan - Thursday 17 March, 2022
# Security Council
# Security Council
The resolution, which avoids using the word Taliban, will allow the UN to continue its “crucial” work in Afghanistan .
# afghanistan - Saturday 26 February, 2022
# Kabul
# Kabul
Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were closed when the Taliban seized power last August.
# afghanistan - Friday 18 February, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
The child, named Haidar, slipped on Tuesday to the bottom of a well being dug in a village.
# afghanistan - Saturday 12 February, 2022
# Unfrozen Funds
# Unfrozen Funds
$7 billion in frozen Afghan assets is to be split between humanitarian relief and a 9/11 fund.
# afghanistan - Wednesday 9 February, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
A Taliban delegation is in Geneva, Switzerland for a week of talks.
# afghanistan - Tuesday 8 February, 2022
# Taliban
# Taliban
No country has formally recognised the government installed after the Taliban seized power.
# afghanistan - Sunday 6 February, 2022
# Refugee Protection
# Refugee Protection
Manizha worked as a dentist in Afghanistan prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
# afghanistan - Saturday 5 February, 2022
# Explainer
# Explainer
Some 55% of the Afghan population is now suffering from hunger, according to the United Nations.
# afghanistan - Friday 4 February, 2022
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
At least 160 Afghan civilians and the 13 US troops were killed by the bombing.
# afghanistan - Tuesday 1 February, 2022
# Charlotte Bellis
# Charlotte Bellis
Only 800 rooms per month are set aside for New Zealanders and visa holders.
# afghanistan - Monday 31 January, 2022
# Charlotte Bellis
# Charlotte Bellis
Charlotte Bellis said she had to turn to the Taliban for help after her requests to return home were rejected.
# afghanistan - Wednesday 19 January, 2022
# World Hunger
# World Hunger
We watched in horror as the Taliban retook Kabul, but cannot turn our backs on Afghans, writes Rosamond Bennett.
# afghanistan - Tuesday 11 January, 2022
# United Nations
# United Nations
Around 8 million children could miss out on their education because teachers largely have not been paid since August.
# afghanistan - Thursday 30 December, 2021
# August
# August
Ashraf Ghani denied claims his exit scuppered hopes of a deal with the Taliban and also said he had not left with a stolen fortune.
# afghanistan - Wednesday 29 December, 2021
# Kabul
# Kabul
The former British PM said more than half of the Afghan population is facing extreme hunger, including a million children who are at risk of starving to death.
# afghanistan - Sunday 26 December, 2021
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
The Taliban has also dissolved Afghanistan ’s two election commissions.
# afghanistan - Saturday 18 December, 2021
# The Fix
# The Fix
Your round-up of what made the headlines today.
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