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KABUL - Despite some four million Afghans becoming literate since 2002, Afghanistan still has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world with about nine million illiterate adults, according to the Afghan Ministry of…

KANDAHAR - A 15-day journalism workshop, for female journalists, started in Kandahar today.The workshop is organized by the provincial Information and Culture Department, which “aims to enhance the capacity of the female…

KABUL - Today H.E. Wais Ahmad Barmak – Minister of the Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) – together with senior government officials and members of the community, inaugurated the construction of a 2.6 kilometre…

KABUL - More than 180 female judges from across Afghanistan discussed problems they face while going about their duties, at a four-day annual conference of an umbrella body of female judges which concluded in the capital…

NURISTAN - Three doctors were released on Wednesday, a day after they were taken hostage by unidentified kidnappers in eastern Nuristan province, an official said. The doctors, who had come from Kabul, were abducted when they…

KUNAR - Provincial Council members and residents of eastern Kunar province have backed the proposed construction of a joint hydropower dam by Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Kunar River. On the eve of President Hamid Karzai’s…

NANGARHAR - A dispute between three sub-tribes has ended in Haska Mina district following mediation by the provincial Department of Tribal Affairs and elders. According to Wajiurahman, the Department head, a special jirga (‘a…

BALKH - Eleven-year-old Gulsum, a victim of a harmful tradition, ‘ Baad,’ finally had to take the risk of running away from her forced marriage in Sar-i-Pul province’ s capital city on Tuesday. According to provincial women…

KANDAHAR - Senior government officials in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province highlighted the need to have more women in politics, good governance and decision-making, at a United Nations-organized event last week.…

BAMYAN - Two schools in the Yakawlang district of Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province have spent the past two weeks serving as the pilot sites for a United-Nations backed community policing project – locally known as Police…

SAR-I-PUL- Incidents of rape and self-immolation among women have been on the increase in northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Thursday. So far 125 cases of violence against women have been registered in the…

KHOST - A 20-bed hospital for treatment of drug addicts was inaugurated in Khost province, local officials said on Saturday. Addressing an inauguration ceremony, the head of the Khost counter-narcotics department, Mirna Gul…