Afghanistan: UNICEF to pay stipend to Afghan teachers as ’emergency support’

KABUL, 22 February 2022, (TON): The UN children’s agency says it will pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months.

Salaries have been unpaid for months as the country plunged into economic crisis due to sanctions imposed by some Western governments on the Taliban administration.

Afghan families sell their children into marriage amid hunger crisis.

The country has been in economic crisis since the Taliban took over last August as foreign forces withdrew.

Restrictions on the banking sector due to sanctions and a drop-off in development funding left the new administration struggling to pay many public sector salaries, including for teachers.

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