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“Outbreak of coronavirus and quarantine have left negative impacts on lives of most families,” says 33-year-old Moqadas, who lives with a family of six members in Kabul. Ms. Moqadas—along with her daughter—is living in her parents’ house as her husband is out of the country. As a surgeon, she used…

The National Examination Authority (NEXA) has announced that Kankor, the university entry exam, will be held by the end of this month. The Corona Emergency Committee approved the plan on Sunday, July 05. Officials at the NEXA say that they are prepared to enroll more than 200,000 students this year…

In response to growing insecurity across the highway connecting the western Herat city to Islam Qala port—one of Afghanistan’s largest ports—in the province, customs staffs have gone on strike in Islam Qala customs office. Speaking in a rally held Saturday, July 04, in front of old building of the customs…

Khadija, Navid, Qais, Wahidullah, and Rohullah are child labours who sell shopping bags and chewing gum in Kote Sangi, a busy market in the western part of Kabul. These child labours who are doomed to support their families complain about a drastic decline in sale and harsh behavior of the…

Though the official figure about death toll caused by the Covid-19 shows a decline in the country, a new poll jointly conducted by Kabul Now and the daily Etilaatroz suggests otherwise in the capital Kabul. The poll has found that there is a huge difference between the official death toll…

The Afghan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) adopted a new response policy of fighting against the coronavirus as the covid-19 pandemic continues to climb throughout the country. The new policy allows some private health facilities to work along the public hospitals for a better fight against the disease. The plan…

As the Covid-19 pandemic continue to spread in Afghanistan, a large number of people complain about poor health care performances in hospitals. The Covid-19 pandemic has left a noticeable negative effect on daily lives of every citizen in the country. Some health workers, who were working on the front line,…

The Herat Provincial Council claims that based on their findings on daily basis an average of 70 percent of Herat’s customs revenue is missing. Nearly 100 trucks, loaded with goods, enter the city from Islam Qala port without paying custom duty, the local officials say.   On Saturday, June 05,…

Official documents obtained by Kabul Now suggest Afghanistan National Standard Authority (ANSA) and the Therapeutics Chemical Research Corporation (TCRC), an Indian company which has signed a contract to carry out gas and oil quality control in the country’s ports, blame each other for being involved in corruption. The ANSA accuses…

“I survived those tough days when we did not have a loaf of bread to eat,” Begum, 52, retells her story of raising ten children as a single mother. She resembles those dark periods with the current lockdown and spread of coronavirus. Begum is currently living in PD13 of Herat…