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RAWA team surveyed a camp of displaced people in Nahre-Shahi district of Balkh province in Northern Afghanistan. Lack of security, poverty, unemployment and pressure of Taliban forced around one million people across Afghanistan to leave their villages and gather in suburbs of big cities under deplorable conditions. While most non-governmental and international aid organization have stopped their operations in Afghanistan, starvation threatens the life of millions in the coming winter. Children ...

BBC World Service: The young woman was crying, begging the doctor to kill her and her baby. Dr Nuri, an obstetrician in central Afghanistan, was about to deliver the baby by Caesarean section when the mother broke down. \

Activists seek accountability for government policy ignoring refugees and asylum seekers

Etilaat-e-Roz newspaper: Relatives of a young man named Navid Ahmad in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, confirm that he was killed by Taliban forces for a critical post on Facebook. Sharif Sharafat, Navid Ahmad\s brother, said in a Facebook post that the Taliban had taken him away from home on Thursday last week, and then they found his dead body in a hospital on Sunday.

The Taliban government\s interior ministry has announced that Cpharm, based in Australia, is set to invest $ 450 million in setting up a hashish factory in Afghanistan. \

Etlaat-e-Rooz: Local Taliban officials in Faryab province confirm that three young girls in the province have been wounded in the chest by their brothers. Shamsullah Mohammadi added that the girls have now been transferred to Faryab Provincial Hospital for treatment. He explained that the girls were first taken from their residence in the third district of Maimana by their two brothers and another person to an area on the outskirts of the city, and then wounded with a shotgun.

UN News: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received credible reports of families in Afghanistan offering daughters as young as 20 days old for future marriage in return for a dowry. In a statement released on Friday, the agency’s Executive Director, Henrietta Fore, said that she was “deeply concerned” over reports that child marriage is on the rise.

AlJazeera: The UN envoy for Afghanistan says the country is “on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe”, urging the international community to find ways to provide financial support to the Afghan people, who “feel abandoned”. Deborah Lyons said an estimated 60 percent of Afghanistan’s 38 million people are facing crisis levels of hunger in a food emergency that will likely worsen over the winter.

Aljazeera: Shabir Ahmadi started his job at TOLO TV, Afghanistan’s largest private broadcaster, during one of the darkest days for the media in the war-torn nation: January 21, 2016. The evening before, a Taliban suicide bomber had killed a graphic designer, video editor, set decorator, three dubbing artists and a driver who worked for TOLO’s entertainment wing.

CNN: Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana\s laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she\s reminded of her fate: she\s being sold to a stranger as a child bride.