2024 in Afghanistan
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Events in the year 2024 in Afghanistan.
According to the United Nations Development Programme, by 2022, 97% of Afghans could fall under the poverty threshold, which would plunge the country into a major humanitarian crisis in 2023.[1]
Incumbents[edit]
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Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada | 15 August 2021 – present | |||
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Acting Prime Minister | Hasan Akhund | 7 September 2021 – present | |||
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Chief Justice | Abdul Hakim Haqqani | 15 August 2021 – present | |||
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Deputy Leader |
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15 August 2021 – present | |||
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Acting Deputy Prime Minister |
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7 September 2021 – present |
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Events[edit]
Ongoing[edit]
Afghan conflict; Islamic State–Taliban conflict; Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
- January 4 – A spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry of the Taliban announces the arrest of an undetermined number of women for wearing "bad hijab", in the first known crackdown on dress code since their return to power in August 2021.[2]
- January 29 – Ten vehicles crash on the main highway linking Kabul and the eastern Nangarhar Province, killing 17 people and wounding ten more. Separately, fifteen people are killed during four collisions in Laghman Province, near the end of the same highway.[3]
Sports[edit]
- January – Afghan cricket team in India in 2023–24[4]
- December 25 2023 – 2 January 2024: Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2023–24[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "97 percent of Afghans could plunge into poverty by mid 2022, says UNDP". UNDP. Archived from the original on 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ "Taliban arrest women for 'bad hijab' in the first dress code crackdown since their return to power". AP News. 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ "33 people have been killed in separate traffic crashes in eastern Afghanistan". AP News. 2024-01-28. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "BCCI announces fixtures for International Home Season 2023-24". www.bcci.tv. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
- ^ "AfghanAtalan to Tour UAE for a three-match T20I Series late this month". cricket.af. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
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