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ReliefWeb
April 2, 2018
Central Region: Nearly 1,500 people arrived in Ghazni centre from within Ghazni Province, and from Uruzgan and Wardak provinces, according to authorities, due to ongoing armed clashes. Since mid-March, more than 1,200 displaced people arrived in Kabul City from Logar, Nangarhar, Jawzjan andÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 2, 2018
In an echo of previous years, U.S. Marines in Helmand province are advising the Afghan army's 215th Corps as it seeks to clear roads around towns and cities that are hotbeds for insurgent activity. While U.S. advisers report growing autonomy among Afghan units, they acknowledge that many areas willÃâà...
Tri-City Herald
March 24, 2018
After five days criss-crossing Afghanistan, meeting with everyone from the Afghan president to the new American trainers on the ground, Gen. ... 1-23, the Afghan military operation was launched in mid-February in a move to oust the Taliban from a critical 10-kilometer stretch of valley in Laghman Province.
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 23, 2018
After five days criss-crossing Afghanistan, meeting with everyone from the Afghan president to the new American trainers on the ground, Gen. ... Dubbed Saleb 1-23, the Afghan military operation was launched in mid-February in a move to oust the Taliban from a critical 10-kilometer stretch of valley in Laghman Province.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 15, 2018
Horrified by the prospect of being hit yet again, he and his parents agreed that he would simply leave school and get a job. Today the teenager earns just two dollars a day working at a blacksmiths near his home in Mehtar Lam city, the provincial capital of Laghman. “My teachers used to beat me very hard,”Ãâà...
Reliefweb
March 12, 2018
Nearly 2,500 people have reportedly been displaced to four districts of Parwan Province from Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan and Samangan provinces due to ... The families had been displaced in the last week of February due to clashes between armed groups, followed by clearing operations by AfghanÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 8, 2018
In 2012 Karim Dad, a 20-year-old from the eastern province of Nuristan, decided to join the Afghan National Army (ANA). ... Back in their home village of Mamo, Karim Dad's widow Fatima, the mother of their six-year-old son, told IWPR that she had tried to collect the benefits due to the bereaved family of aÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 5, 2018
The provinces sheltering the highest number of displaced families are Kunduz with 10,815 IDPs, followed by Farah with more than 2,000 displaced people. ... NR/NER: In Aybak City, Samangan Province, 679 conflict IDPs received cash assistance from PIN, food from WFP, NFIs from UNHCR and hygieneÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 26, 2018
Eastern Region: Approximately 4,200 people have been displaced in Alingar District within the district and to Mehtarlam City, according to authorities. Their displacement ... More than 1,000 people attended psychosocial counselling sessions by UNFPA/AADA in Kunar, Laghman and Nangarhar provinces.
UN News
December 31, 1999
The Laghman River, one of Afghanistan's many waterways, is essential to agriculture and other development in this largely rural eastern province. ... Faced with an ever-increasing demand for water, China recently initiated a project, entitled 'Sponge City,' to improve water availability in urban settlementsÃâà...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
The highest number of displaced families are in Kunduz Province with 13,615 IDPs, followed by neighbouring Takhar with 5,383 IDPs. ... to Mahmud-e-Raqi, Hisa-e-Awal-e-Kohestan and Hisa-e-Duwum-e-Kohestan districts of Kapisa province from Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan and Parwan provinces due toÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
December 31, 1999
A power line linking two major cities in Afghanistan is being sabotaged by protestors angry that they lack access to electricity themselves, an IWPR ... The line supplying power from the Naghlo dam, a hydroelectric plant in the Sarubi district of Kabul to the city of Jalalabad in the eastern Nangarhar province,Ãâà...
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