Save the Children says collapse of health system, driven largely by western countries’ freeze of Afghan foreign exchange, comes at deadly cost for children. KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan, killing children who are unable to access healthcare facilities, Save the Children, a leading humanitarian organ...
“Midwives,” a film about a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice, has earned one of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival’s major awards. On Friday, it won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking. It features the story of two midwives. Hla, is Buddhist and part of the majority population in Burma. Her apprentice, [&h...
Somalia’s public education system has been hampered by 30 years of conflict, poverty, weak governance, and climate change, affecting nearly 3 million people. That includes 1.4 million girls, who require assistance to attend school. Somalia was once considered one of the leading countries in the Horn of Africa for quality education, owing to a ...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Braving harsh winters, Syrian fathers stay awake at night to make sure their children do not to freeze to death in opposition-held Idlib. Hundreds of tents in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Idlib along the border between Turkey and Syria were destroyed recently by heavy snowfall and downpour. The [&he...
In August 2021, Afghan taxi driver Hamid Safi found a two-month old boy alone in Kabul airport, amid the chaos of the US troop withdrawal. He and his wife took the baby in and cared for him, as a social media campaign to find the family was under way. Now, seven-month-old Sohail Ahmadi has been […]
