Society

Over the past eight days, three deadly traffic accidents on major highways have left 156 people dead or injured. Citizens are urging the government to take urgent steps to prevent further tragedies.

A representative of the Hindu and Sikh community in Afghanistan, stating that their living conditions are now “better and safer than in the past,” has called for the restitution of their usurped properties.

A child in western Herat province says he has learned eight languages in the past two years without going to school. He asked the government to support him to continue his journey and achieve more success.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that drought, reduced humanitarian aid and the forced return of Afghan refugees have exacerbated malnutrition in Afghanistan.

Residents in Daikundi say the absence or poor quality of telecommunication and internet services in several districts and remote areas of the central province has created serious problems in their daily lives.

The governor of western Herat province met with a nine-year-old boy who can speak eight languages and praised his abilities and talent.

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.