Yousuf Zarifi

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated eight containers of medicines to hospitals in eastern Nangerhar province, officials said on Wednesday.

An American charity has donated medical equipment to the main regional hospital in eastern Nangarhar province to help reduce mother-child mortality rates, an official said on Monday.

Two drinking water networks have been built in the Durbaba district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday.

Kidnapped two and a half years ago, the body of a man belonging to Surkhrod district of eastern Nangarhar province has been found and returned to his family.

A fire that broke out in Jalalabad City, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, has resulted in financial losses worth three million afghanis.

At least two people have been killed and seven others injured in a traffic accident in the Surkh Rod district of eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Saturday.

The Labour and Social Affairs Department of Nangarhar says 6,000 people are working in brick kilns, half of them children and teenagers in the Surkh Rod district of the eastern province.

A man has been killed and six others, including a woman, have been wounded as a result of a traffic accident in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday.

A woman along with her son has killed her daughter-in-law before setting alight her body in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday.

The free of cost distribution of iron or folic acid tablets to girls in 22 districts of eastern Nangarhar province has been launched, an official said on Monday.

As many as 420 youths in eastern Nangarhar province have been provided vocational training in  computer and other fields in cooperation with Youths Health and Development Organisation (YHDO), an official said on Monday.

More than 3,000 tonnes of sweet orange yield estimated in eastern Nangarhar province this season as the gardens conditions are satisfactory, an official said on Wednesday.