Challenges for Afghanistan in 2025 include continuing human rights violations, economic instability and food insecurity; ...

Through revamping rural institutions, infrastructure and technology, Afghanistan has the opportunity of more-rapid agricultural growth, poverty reduction, and boosting of shared prosperity. More than ...

Over the past three years, Taliban officials say, 14,500 foreign tourists have visited the isolated, poverty-stricken nation. They have arrived with hard currency that Afghanistan desperately needs.

Afghanistan is also facing hunger and the risk of malnutrition and poverty, a near-collapse of the national public health system and natural disasters.

The United Nations has told the Taliban to revoke a ban on Afghan women working in NGOs after the de facto government issued.