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Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, meets with the head of Kandahar's Economy Directorate, Mawlawi Abdul Salam Baryali in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Monday, May 22, 2023. Egeland said Thursday, May 25, that the Taliban have agreed to consider allowing Afghan women to resume work at the agency in the southern province of Kandahar, the religious and political center for the country's rulers. (Norwegian Refugee Council via AP)

Aid chief says Taliban agree to consider allowing women to resume agency work in Kandahar

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, Jan Egeland, listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The Taliban's "internal debates and extreme decrees" are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The Associated Press on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-long trip to talk to Taliban leaders about reversing a ban on women working for national and international nongovernmental groups. Jan Egeland, who is the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the first NGO chief to have visited Afghanistan to talk to the Taliban since the ban came into effect more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Aid chief: Taliban decrees against women paralyzing NGO work

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, March 29, 2020, Boureima Gassambe speaks to The Associated Press at the makeshift camp for the internally displaced where he and around 600 others live in an abandoned school on the outskirts of the capital, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. “We ran away from the terrorists and came here, but now there’s the coronavirus, and we don’t know what will happen,” said Gassambe. (Photo/Sam Mednick)

Lack of virus testing stokes fears in world’s refugee camps

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and RISHABH R. JAIN and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Migrants rest on a Mediterranea Saving Humans NGO boat, as they sail off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, on Thursday, July 4, 2019. An Italian humanitarian group whose boat has been barred from docking in Lampedusa said the health of the 54 migrants it rescued at sea is rapidly deteriorating, prompting fears of another standoff with Italy's populist government. Mediterranea Saving Humans said Friday in a tweet that its sailing boat ALEX was off Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, and that it has been banned from entering Italian jurisdiction by ministerial decree. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)

Refugee group: ‘Alarming’ that only 27% of funds received

Associated Press

FILE - In this May 10, 2017, file photo, men and children flee heavy fighting between Islamic State militants and Iraqi special forces in Mosul, Iraq. An international charity said Tuesday, April 30, 2019, that an estimated 45,000 children in Iraq who were born under the rule of the Islamic State group are being excluded from society because the government denies them documentation and ID papers. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Charity: Iraq excludes 45,000 children born under IS rule

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Aid group says Cameroon’s restive regions need more help

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

UN official: Syria has withdrawn controversial property law

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press