Seventy-six people were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said Wednesday. “Seventy-six citizens of the country … lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured,” Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, Herat provincial government spokesman, said in a statement. Map…
MTN Group on Monday disclosed that it is now the subject of a grand jury investigation by the US department of justice. The investigation will look into MTN’s operations in Afghanistan (now disposed of) and Iran (where it owns 49% of Irancell). Both countries are politically volatile and both face US sanctions (sweeping in the…
Orzala, of RUSI, said that while influencers with Western passports “roam freely, pose for photos and gain online fame,” those privileges are denied to Afghan women, who are barred from schools, jobs or even walking freely in public without being accompanied by male guardians. There are also moral and ethical dilemmas, she added, because profits…
