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Kabul water crisis: Afghan capital edges towards 'day zero' as boreholes dry, drought bites and aid stays frozenKabul faces a severe water crisis as aquifers deplete faster than they can be replenished. The population growth has resulted in excessive ...- The next wars may not be about oil or borders: Climate change is turning food, water and farmland into new sources of conflict across the worldClimate change is reshaping global agriculture and resource availability. This shift could increasingly drive future conflicts and instabil...
- Govt mulls FDI liberalisation in plantation sectorIndia is considering liberalizing foreign direct investment norms for plantations. More commercial crops like bananas could be included und...
- Five years of Taliban rule: Survival is not the same as stabilityThe Taliban has maintained control of Afghanistan for five years. Mounting domestic pressures include poverty and refugee returns. Internal...
- Hundreds dead and missing in Afghanistan flash floodsOver 300 deaths in Baghlan due to heavy rains. UNICEF, WHO, and Save the Children provide aid to 600,000 affected people, half of them chil...
- Taliban, Western officials meet for talks in OsloThomas West, the US special representative for Afghanistan, tweeted on Sunday: "As we seek to address humanitarian crisis together with all...
- At least 26 killed in Afghanistan earthquakeThe victims died when roofs of their houses collapsed in Qadis district in the western province of Badghis, spokesman for the province Baz ...
- India wants to send wheat to ease Afghan hunger crisis. Pakistan has yet to OK transit.Despite agreeing to help Afghanistan, the souring relationship between India and Pakistan is getting in the way of 50,000 tons of Indian wh...
- Afghanistan could face severe food crisis in harsh winterThe Taliban, whose financial reserves came from illegal activities, are proving completely incapable of funding social services and food as...
- Taliban ban use of foreign currency in AfghanistanThe surprise move came hours after at least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest milit...
- More than half of Afghans face 'acute' food crisis: UN agencieshe crisis is already bigger in scale than that facing Yemen or Syria, and worse than any food insecurity emergency apart from the Democrati...
- UN World Food Programme in talks with India for wheat donation to AfghanistanMary-Ellen McGroarty, the WFP country director in Afghanistan, said that discussions have taken place over the last two weeks and she hoped...
- Kabul faces blackout as Taliban falters on electricity bills paymentDomestic production has been affected by this year's drought. As per the report, Afghanistan lacks a national power grid, and Kabul depends...
- 12.2 million people in Afghanistan acutely food insecure: UNThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 735,000 people returned to the country this year from Iran, Pakistan...
- EU ministers to weigh Afghan security, migrant challengesAfghans are among the biggest group of nationalities seeking sanctuary in Europe, after Syrians. According to some EU estimates, around 570...
- US, EU, NATO release joint statement urging halt in fighting in Afghanistan, say don't support govt imposed by military forceThe countries in their discussion on Afghanistan said that they are closely monitoring the situation in the country and called for a halt i...
- India, Afghanistan highlight Chabahar Port's importance in strengthening trade, economic tiesThe Chabahar Port, inaugurated in December last year, has opened a new strategic transit route between India, Iran and Afghanistan that byp...
- Afghanistan, sub-Saharan Africa top food security risksAfghanistan and nations in sub-Saharan Africa are most at risk from shocks to food supplies such as droughts or floods while Nordic countri...
- UN, Afghanistan launch US$400 million food appeal to overcome drought, poor harvestThe United Nations and Afghanistan's government launched a US $ 400 million food aid appeal on Wednesday to help feed 4.5 million vulnerabl...
- India to send 15000 tonnes wheat to AfghanINDIA will send 15,000 tonne wheat to Afghanistan by next month as part of a comprehensive food aid of one million tonnes spanning several ...
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