SOLA now educates Afghan girls at its boarding school in Rwanda and through SOLAx, a free, WhatsApp-based learning platform launched in March 2024. Basij-Rasikh said the platform has more than 40,000 learners, 85 percent of whom are inside Afghanistan.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Afghanistan’s “Shelter, Land and Site Coordination” response program is facing a funding shortfall of $153 million.
OCHA said on Wednesday, August 26, that the program requested $160 million in funding for the current year, but only 4.7 percent of the required amount has been received so far.
On May 21, Zakia Ahmad, known as “River,” reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the first woman from Afghanistan to climb the world’s highest mountain. For River, Everest was never only about climbing a mountain.
“When you lock the gates of a school, you are not just closing a building; you are sealing the door to a family’s future,” says Zalfa Mohammadi, an education activist who has spent years witnessing the transformative power of a classroom.
U.S. immigration authorities have deported at least 104 Afghan nationals directly to Afghanistan, according to an analysis of federal removal data covering October 2022 to March 2026.
Europe today faces a challenge that may seem small in scale, but its political and social impact is profound. Newly released reports from Europol, examining the state and trends of terrorism in Europe for 2024, show that jihadist attacks have not only failed to decrease, but their very nature is also changing.
Kenya has become one of the destinations for Afghan asylum seekers, many of whom are now living in refugee camps under harsh and uncertain conditions.
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