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(Last Updated On: January 11, 2021) Nine people are reported to have died in a fire in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of a hospital in Gaziantep in Turkey on Saturday.  Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said the fire broke out in a private hospital and that it is believed to have started after an oxygen ventilator exploded.  Other patients receiving treatment were transferred to nearby hospitals, Koca said. The Anadolu news agency said the fire took place at the Sanko University Hospital in Gaziantep. It cited a hospital statement identifying the victims as being between 56 and...

KABUL: In an unprecedented move, the Taliban has agreed to a UN Fund for Children program to provide access to education to more than 100,000 Afghan girls and boys in regions under the insurgent group’s control, UNICEF and the Taliban confirmed on Saturday.  The breakthrough follows nearly two years of discussions between the UN agency and Taliban leaders based in Qatar. According to UNICEF’s estimates, 3.7 million children are out of school in Afghanistan, where decades of armed conflict destroyed educational infrastructure. Sixty percent of out-of-school children are girls, who during ...

share Print UNICEF has reached an agreement with the Taliban to expand community-based education classes in Taliban-controlled areas to serve more than 100,000 children, including girls. UNICEF spokeswoman Sam Mort told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan, known locally as Radio Azadi, that about 680 community-based classes are already operational and the goal is to increase the number to about 4,000. Mort said community-based education classes are small -- 25 to 35 students – and often take place in people’s homes in hard-to-reach areas and villages. She stressed that they are not schools,...

Print this page ISLAMABAD - UNICEF has struck a rare agreement with the Taliban in war-ravaged Afghanistan to establish thousands of informal schools in areas controlled by the Islamist insurgent group. The program will reach up to 140,000 Afghan boys and girls, said Sam Mort, the agency’s chief of communications, advocacy and civic engagement in the South Asian nation, where an estimated 3.7 million children are out of school. “Through this agreement, UNICEF will support the establishment of 4,000 community-based education classes across Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Faryab,” M...