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NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Afghanistan's decade-long conflict has forced more than half a million people to flee their homes -- many of whom are at risk of disease, hunger and possible death in city ...

Afghanistan’s poverty rate was expected to ... Deep inside the warren of sandy streets in Herat’s slums, Mir Gul Ataye, 28, regrets every second of his decision to sell his kidney.

According to a report by CGTN News, Kabul alone has around 30 slums, which house almost 75% of the capital city’s population. In total, approximately 7.4 million urban citizens in Afghanistan ...

India's legendary slums are now home to 1 in 6 of all urban Indians. On Global Notes, remembering the music of Bebo Valdés. (Photo: AP Images) Despite recent criticism from Hamid Karzai ...

In 2010, 27.6 percent of Afghanistan’s urban population lived below the national poverty line, while, in 2005, almost 89 percent of the urban population lived in slums. An analysis of nighttime lights ...

They went into Afghanistan, out to a desert slum of Kabul, where land was cheap. Then they put the school back together and changed the whole story of their people. By the time I came across ...

"Afghanistan has changed in the last 20 years ... for Khan is ensuring that the children and the youths living in the slum township have access to education and other skill development programmes.

These beautiful images show the faces of refugee Afghan children living in slums on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Huddled in threadbare headscarves and woolly hats, some clutch baby ...

Migrants from Afghanistan living illegally in Pakistan ... 8, 2023 Hundreds of police officers flooded into a Karachi slum around midnight, surrounding the homes of Afghan migrants and pounding ...