News Afghanistan Economy: Afghan Economy Expands Amid Persistent Challenges
KABUL, December 11, 2025 — Afghanistan’s economy is expanding for the second consecutive year, supported by low inflation and stronger revenues. However, rapid population growth, a widening trade ...
News Afghanistan Economy: UN warns that Afghanistan faces deepening crisis as regional 'instability' tightens grip
Afghanistan's continued alienation from the international system remains the central issue,' says Georgette Gagnon - Anadolu Ajansı ...
News Afghanistan Economy: The Economic Toll of Afghanistan’s Refugee Crisis
What’s Behind the Upsurge in Migration? Afghanistan over the last decade experienced unreal economic growth. However, a significant portion of Afghanistan’s GDP and governmental revenue ...
News Afghanistan Economy: Statement on Afghanistan by Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
UN Women strongly condemns the Taliban’s latest discriminatory decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. We stand in full solidarity with our colleagues, and all women who everyday put their lives at risk to serve their country and we salute their dedication, professionalism, and bravery. We re-assert their inalienable, fundamental human rights as enshrined in the UN Charter. We will not replace our female workforce with men.
News Afghanistan Economy: Afghan Taliban Announce New Round of Public Floggings
Afghanistan’s Taliban have announced fresh public floggings of convicts, both women and men, in defiance of renewed United Nations calls for the Islamist rulers to immediately halt the practice. The Taliban’s supreme court said Monday a group of 22 individuals, including women, was flogged...
News Afghanistan Economy: Afghanistan in 2022: Photos from a year of Taliban rule
Washington Post contract photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli witnessed the changes Taliban rule has brought to Afghanistan.
News Afghanistan Economy: Afghanistan's media raises concerns on World Press Freedom Day
Read more about Afghanistan's media raises concerns on World Press Freedom Day on Business Standard. The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in a statement on World Press Freedom Day, said that they "deplore the erosion of rights for journalists and media institutions under the Taliban."
News Afghanistan Economy: China, Afghanistan's Taliban forging a closer relationship, former diplomat says
When asked about China's relationship with Afghanistan, she noted ... the country has been facing economic collapse, and with the Taliban hunting down opponents and trampling on women and minority ...
News Afghanistan Economy: As the Afghan economy crumbles, small businesses struggle to hang on
If successful, he said, their efforts should help ease the country’s economic crisis — and prove to Afghans and the world that the new rulers are both capable and committed. “Before the Islamic ...
News Afghanistan Economy: Afghanistan’s Free Fall Sparks Accelerating Humanitarian Crisis
(Bloomberg) -- The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the resulting cut in international aid has led to a worsening humanitarian crisis, according to the latest report by a Pentagon watchdog that has spent more than a decade tracking conditions in the war-torn nation.
News Afghanistan Economy: Constant ISIS terror attacks are challenging the Taliban's tenuous grip on power in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's crippling economic and humanitarian crisis has also provided an environment for radicalized individuals to be recruited by ISIS-K, Kugelman said. ISIS-K has several goals in Afghanistan, ...
News Afghanistan Economy: Islamic scholars call on Taliban to reopen schools for girls in Afghanistan
The Taliban regime which took over Kabul in August last year has curtailed women`s rights and freedoms, with women largely excluded from the workforce due to the economic crisis and restrictions.
News Afghanistan Economy: Economic Hardship Impacts Afghan Media
Afghanistan lost two more local radio stations in April, as economic hardship hits the country’s media community. The stations - Paktia Ghag, in Paktia province, and Sadai Maimana, in Faryab province ...
News Afghanistan Economy: In Afghanistan, Islamic Scholars Urge Taliban To Reopen Schools For Girls Above Grade 6
expressing serious concern over the restriction on girl students above 6th grade to attend classes in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban's takeover, the law and order situation in the war-ravaged country ...
News Afghanistan Economy: India's wheat shipment to Afghanistan via Pakistan to begin in early Feb: Report
India will ship 50,000 tonnes of wheat and medicines to Afghanistan by road through Pakistan. The process, discussions for which had been going on for a while, will start early next month.
News Afghanistan Economy: Millions in Afghanistan at risk as donors can't transfer funds
A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council finds that Western economic measures imposed on Afghanistan since Taliban ta ...
News Afghanistan Economy: Opinion: Four ways Joe Biden let down Americans in his first year, from the economy to COVID-19
He had some clear and much-needed successes. But on inflation, Afghanistan, the border and the pandemic, his mistakes are plain.
