Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities responded on Monday (26 August) to international criticism of recently codified morality rules, saying rejecting the legislation without understanding Islamic law showed “arrogance”.
The World Food Programme on Wednesday called the recent Afghanistan earthquakes a ‘disaster on top of a disaster,’ urging the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the war-torn nation.
After decades of conflict, three years of consecutive drought, and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises with over a third of its population acutely food insecure.
