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More than 10,294 acres of land has been retrieved and registered by the technical committee for preventing land usurpation in central Logar province, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said on Thursday.

A number of residents of Kabul have voiced their concern over ongoing power outages and called for a permanent solution to the problem.

The United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) in Afghanistan says that by 2060, about half of the country’s population will live in cities.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with $10 million in funding from the Republic of Korea, has officially launched the Relief, Employment and Vital Infrastructure for the Vulnerable in Emergencies (REVIVE) project in Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) says Qatar has offered 3,100 legal job opportunities for Afghan workers, with talks also under way with five other countries to secure further employment prospects for Afghan citizens.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says the Joint Committee for Controlling Residential Rents has decided that homeowners are not allowed to increase the rent of their houses by more than 10 percent from last year; otherwise, violators will face legal action.

Around 126 individuals have graduated from vocational training in central Logar province, where officials pledged expanded opportunities for recently returned refugees from Pakistan and Iran to acquire skills and secure employment.

More than 18,500 acres of land was retrieved in 10 provinces last month and over half a million acres of Emirati land registered in 18 provinces, the Ministry of Justice said on Sunday.

A flour production factory has been inaugurated in southern Ghazni province at a cost of 2.5 million US dollars.

Alongside ongoing treatment, vocational training is being provided to 500 drugs addicts in western Herat province, an official said on Wednesday.

Residents of Shurabak village in Darah Qazi area of Ferozkoh, the capital of western Ghor province, say consecutive droughts have made access to safe drinking water increasingly difficult. As a result, water-borne illnesses such as diarrhea have become common among children.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it urgently needs $539 million to continue delivering humanitarian assistance across Afghanistan over the next six months.