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Welcome back to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. I'm Mustafa Sarwar, a senior news editor at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. Here's what I've been tracking and what I'm keeping an eye on in the days ahead.
Kabul, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed here that 38 workers from that agency have been killed in Afghanistan over the last two years.
Six shamans have been arrested by authorities in north-west Badghis province, officials said Monday. Ahmad Jan Hanzala, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the shaman’s had been working to break up families, in an un-Islamic practice. He said books, amulets and documents had been seized from the individuals, which showed they had split couples.
Iran’s minister of energy has said that following the inspection of Deh Rawood hydrometric station in Helmand province, it was found that the drought situation in Afghanistan is ‘serious’. “Recently, our colleagues visited Deh Rawood hydrometric station in Helmand. This visit showed that the drought in Afghanistan is also serious,” Ali Akbar Mehrabian said as