Niamat Ibrahimi

In Ghazi Abad, Kunar, over 4,000 homes were destroyed in Sunday’s earthquake. Families are homeless, roads cut off, and some areas only reachable on foot.
#UNICEFAfghanistan and partners are deploying urgent medical care, hygiene kits and winter clothing to affected children and families.

03.09.2025 11:57 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

More than 4 years has passed since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. In this @justsecurity.org essay, I reflect on how people who live under the Taliban's repression and tyranny, especially women and girls, may have experienced these years.

03.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Hazaras in Afghanistan: exclusion, minoritisation and resistance | Melbourne Asia Review Ending the persecution of Hazaras must be seen as an essential prerequisite for achieving inclusive and sustainable peace.

New article 'The Hazaras in Afghanistan: exclusion, minoritisation and resistance' is out in the latest edition of Melbourne Asia Review.

It is part of a broader collection on Islam and minorities' rights.

www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/the-hazaras-...

02.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hundreds Killed as Powerful Earthquake Rocks Afghanistan Injured people were airlifted from mountainous communities after a 6.0-magnitude quake. The death toll was expected to rise.

Hundreds Killed as Powerful Earthquake Rocks Afghanistan #NYT #Afghanistan

01.09.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

After 4 years of repressive Taliban rule, Afghans are suffering in silence. Is the world still watching? Russia and China have started to bring the Taliban in from the cold. The international community may soon have little leverage to pressure the group to change.

Despite promises of moderation and inclusion, four years later, the Taliban has established a repressive, exclusionary regime – one that has dismantled institutions of law, justice and civil rights with ruthless efficiency.

theconversation.com/after-4-year...

29.08.2025 04:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Afghanistan: Opium prices approach historic peaks, crime syndicates benefit Prices for opium in Afghanistan have increased tenfold since the de facto authorities imposed a drug ban in 2022 following their takeover in Kabul, latest UN data shows.

"Prices for opium in #Afghanistan have increased 10fold since the... drug ban in 2022, latest @UNODC data shows. (... It) estimates that opiate stocks at the end of 2022 totalled 13,200 t, enough to potentially meet demand for Afghan opiates until 2027."
news.un.org/en/story/202...
#Afghanistan

13.03.2025 09:43 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her employer

The constant horror of living under a gender apartheid regime:

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

13.01.2025 23:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0