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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 ...

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) An Afghan refugee boy salvaging some of his belongings after a slum was demolished by authorities in Islamabad yesterday. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan claimed ...

"Now we live here, in such a slum life with no food ... Many had worked in Afghanistan's manufacturing and services industries. Since the collapse of the U.S.-backed government and the ...

Buzkashi Boys is set in the old city slums of Kabul and focuses on two ... French and Roe join us to talk about filming in war-torn Afghanistan and how they’re working towards creating the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Islamabad — As the world marks International Women's Day on Wednesday, the women of Afghanistan have little ... has also become a refugee in Islamabad's slums. "It's depressing to realize ...

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 ...