Taliban
Taliban bans male government workers from turning up to office without beards
By Agencies | 2 years ago
Afghanistan’s Taliban has instructed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to a dress code or risk being fired, three sources told...
Who are the Taliban?
By Agencies | 3 years ago
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 th...
Uganda to take 2,000 Afghan refugees at U.S. request
By Collins Osanya | 3 years ago
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 take...
Kenya renews its push to add Al-Shabaab to UN sanctions list
By Joel Muinde | 4 years ago
Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma leads calls to add Somalia's Al-Shabaab group to the same same sanctions list as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda....
Suicide bomb rips through wedding in Afghanistan killing 63 people
By BBC | 5 years ago
A bomb has exploded in a wedding hall in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing 63 people and wounding more than 180. Witnesses told the BBC a suicide bom...