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KABUL: Afghanistan risks becoming a forgotten crisis unless the Taliban reopen schools for girls, a top UN official warned on Tuesday. The hardline Islamists sparked outrage last week after ordering girls’ secondary schools to shut down just hours after allowing them to reopen for the first time since seizing power seven months ago. On Tuesday Achim Steiner, head of the …

UNITED NATIONS: More than 10,000 civilians were killed or injured in Afghanistan in 2019, continuing a decade-long streak of violence that has caused over 100,000 civilian casualties, says a UN report while urging all parties to stop fighting. The 100,000 civilian casualties recorded since 2009, include more than 35,000 killed and 65,000 injured. Thirty percent of the casualties were children, …