Peace Is Impossible Without Preserving Republic System, Human Rights Values: FM
The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the second Afghanistan-EU Special Working Group meeting on human rights, good governance and migration on Thursday. Speaking at the event in Kabul, Acting...
View ArticleMore Than 6 Million Afghans Are Immigrants In Other Countries
In the last 5 years, more than 4 million Afghans came back to the country, yet there are many more of them living in the other countries, said minister of the Ministry of Repatriation and Refugees. On...
View ArticleUS speeds up visas for vulnerable Afghans
As the U.S. military completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan in the coming weeks, the Biden administration says it is adding staff to hurry up the visa process for Afghans who worked for the U.S....
View ArticleWorld Refugee Day: about 6.5 million Afghans are refugees across globe
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says that an estimated 6.5 million Afghans are living as migrants or asylum seekers in about 70 countries. Addressing a press conference on...
View ArticleTurkey detains 149 Afghan migrants after ramping up border security
Turkish security forces detained 149 Afghan migrants on Thursday in the eastern city of Bitlis, after the country ratcheted up border security measures to avoid a potential influx from Afghanistan via...
View ArticleNorwegian aid group says thousands of Afghans crossing into Iran daily
As many as 4,000-5,000 Afghans have been crossing into Iran daily since the collapse of the former government in August and hundreds of thousands more are expected to arrive in the coming winter, the...
View ArticleEU asks Afghanistan’s neighbours to prevent exploitation of migrants
The European Union’s top diplomat on Monday urged Afghanistan’s northern neighbours to help prevent what he described as the abuse of migrants for political goals by the Belarusian authorities, Reuters...
View ArticleOver 50% of Afghans want to leave their country – Gallup poll
The majority of Afghans want to leave their homeland for good, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. The survey of 2,002 Afghan adults in August and September last year found that a record 53...
View ArticleMigration to Germany to hit 1.2 million in 2022: report
More people will have sought refuge in Germany in 2022 than at the height of the European migrant crisis, Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported Sunday. The newspaper said the country is on course to see...
View ArticleNew labor minister promises to provide job opportunities to curb migration
Abdul Manan Omari, the new minister of labor and social affairs, says the ministry will try to provide job opportunities for people inside the country so as to stop Afghans from seeking work outside...
View ArticleEighteen Afghan migrants found dead in truck in Bulgaria
Bulgarian police have arrested four people after they found the bodies of 18 dead migrants from Afghanistan, including that of a child, in an abandoned truck near the capital Sofia, officials said on...
View ArticleItaly’s coast guard, navy, bring hundreds of migrants ashore
Italian coast guard and navy vessels on Saturday ferried hundreds of rescued migrants toward shore, while elsewhere in the Mediterranean Sea thousands of migrants overflowed from a shelter on a tiny...
View ArticleInternational community must not forget Afghans: refugees minister
The international community should not forget the Afghan people and should not politicize the humanitarian issue, the country’s minister of refugees and repatriation said on Sunday. “We ask all the...
View ArticleDozens of migrants dead, 100 rescued as boat sinks off Greece
At least 78 migrants died after their fishing boat sank off the Peloponnese, Greece’s coastguard said Wednesday, as fears mounted that the death toll could rise much higher. Some 100 people were...
View ArticleAfghan evacuee child dies in US custody
A 6-year-old Afghan boy brought to the US after the Islamic Emirate took control of Afghanistan in 2021 died last week while in federal government custody, CBS News reported. The Afghan child had a...
View ArticleHanafi urges Islamic countries help create job opportunities and prevent...
Abdulsalam Hanafi, Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs, on Thursday urged the Islamic countries and aid organizations to assist in creating job opportunities and prevent migration of...
View ArticleUNHCR chief discusses Afghan refugee issue with Pakistan’s deputy PM
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi met with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to discuss issues relating to refugees particularly those from...
View ArticleMore than half a million people left Afghanistan in last three months: IOM
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has announced that from April to June this year, more than 532,000 people left Afghanistan. The organization said in a report that more than 858,000...
View ArticleGerman foreign minister criticizes promise to deport Afghans
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has indirectly criticized Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser for promising to deport Afghan or Syrian criminals quickly. “I believe...
View ArticleMigration problem cannot be solved by building walls: Mousavi
Seyyed Rasoul Mousavi, an assistant to Iran’s foreign minister, argued on Friday that the problem of migration cannot be solved by building walls on the border, adopting strict policies, and inhuman...
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