Who are the Taliban?
The Taliban were removed from power in Afghanistan by US-led forces in 2001, but the group has been on the offensive in recent months and is now on the brink of seizing power again. As the US prepared to complete its withdrawal by September 11, after two decades of war, the militants took major cities […]
Uganda to take 2,000 Afghan refugees at U.S. request
Uganda said on it had agreed to a request from the United States to take in temporarily 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan fleeing after the Taliban takeover. On Tuesday, August 17, the East African nation which has a long experience of receiving people escaping conflict and currently hosts about 1.4 million refugees, most from South Sudan […]
WHO: Mental Illness Widespread in Conflict Areas
VOA The World Health Organization said this week that one in five people living in conflict areas suffers from a mental illness, compared with one in 14 people in the general population globally. Findings from a new study indicate that the extent of the problem has been grossly underestimated. The United Nations has estimated that nearly […]