Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said on Sunday. He said the person who orchestrated the poisoning had a personal grudge but did not…
Afghanistan: UN’s top women meet Taliban over female aid worker ban
In a country where women are barred from university and secondary schools, and banned from many workplaces, the world’s biggest aid operation is now at risk of failing those who desperately need it. And it’s happening in the cruellest depths…