Furthermore, 85% of the population is said to live under the poverty line and as many as 95% may be facing food insecurity. According to UNICEF , an estimated 16 million children in Afghanistan ...

More than 40% of the population is living on less than one meal a day and 97% are expected to have fallen below the poverty line by the end of the year. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

The World Bank's top economists have said that half of Afghanistan's population currently lives below the poverty line, TOLO News reported.

FRONTLINE takes a look at the state of Afghanistan — from the economy to women’s rights and humanitarian crises — two years after the Taliban’s takeover.

Pakistan will consider extending the deadline for 1.4 million Afghan refugees living legally in the country to return home, ...

KABUL, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- As the world is going to observe the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Thursday, poverty still haunts local people in post-war Afghanistan. Decades of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of men using heroin, opium and meth were strewn over a hillside above Kabul in tents or lying in the dirt. Some of them overdose, and quietly slip across the line ...

Afghanistan: Two years on from the Taliban seizing power, women fight back against poverty and restrictions. Many women have set up secret, underground businesses to make ends meet as the Taliban ...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has said that the eviction of hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and Iran continues unabated, with around 2,000 individuals arriving in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Hundreds of men using heroin, opium and meth were strewn over a hillside above Kabul in tents or lying in the dirt. Some of them overdose, and quietly slip across the ...