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Land-locked Afghanistan is strategically located at the crux of Central, South and West Asia, bordered by Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China. It is a country of geographical extremes, from mountains in the centre to the northeast, to arid desert in the south and southwest. As a result, temperatures vary from -20oC to over +40oC. The country area is 652,860 km2 (roughly the same size as France).
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Land Area
65,223,000 ha
GDP/Capita
1,516.3 USD
Total population
40,099,500
Urban population
25.5 %
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Agricultural land
58.1 %
Perceived tenure security
72.9 %
Women owning land
2.3 %
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20 November 2022
Main photo: A picture of the Kurram border with Afghanistan on Sunday. — Photo by author
Seven people, including two children, were injured following firing from across the Afghan border in Kharlachi and Borki near Kurram border on Sunday, according to officials.
Parachinar District Headquarters…
06 October 2022
The 'Jogi', the Gypsies of Afghanistan, have launched a struggle with the State to access identification papers and defend their rights. Marginalised and plunged into poverty, they want to integrate into Afghan society.
In the northwestern suburbs of Mazar-e-Sharif, on the border with the rural…
15 July 2022
Main image: A coal mine in Afghanistan. (file photo)
Cash-strapped and cut off from international aid, the Taliban-led government is tapping into Afghanistan's natural resources to boost revenue.
Since the Taliban toppled the Western-backed government in Kabul and seized power in August 2021, the…
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Land policy and laws express ambitions that do not reflect reality on the ground where 90% of occupation is informal or customary. However, good progress regularizing informal settlements through the issue of Occupancy Certificates offers hope.
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14 February 2021
By R.K. Lembke
originally posted here
Peace is possible in Afghanistan, but it has to be by the terms of the average, rural, Muslim, Afghan tribesman. They represent the majority of the Afghan population. Taliban, U.S., and Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) empathy and…
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High Level Political Forum 2019 - Side Event
Thursday, 11 July 18.30 – 20.00
Conference Room 11, UN HQ
UN-Habitat in collaborationwith Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs,
the Department of Peace Operations, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Global Donor Working…
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